Our pathway oft is wet with tears,

Our sky with clouds o’ercast,

And worldly cares and worldly fears

Go with us to the last;—

Not to the last! God’s word hath said,

Could we but read aright:

O pilgrim! lift in hope thy head,

At eve it shall be light!

Though earth-born shadows now may shroud

Our toilsome path a while,

God’s blessed word can part each cloud,

And bid the sunshine smile.

If we but trust in living faith,

His love and power divine,

Then, though our sun may set in death,

His light shall round us shine.

When tempest-clouds are dark on high,

His bow of love and peace

Shines beauteous in the vaulted sky,

Token that storms shall cease.

Then keep we on, with hope unchilled,

By faith and not by sight,

And we shall own his word fulfilled,—

“At eve it shall be light.”