CONSOLATION.
"They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. ... Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?"—Jer. viii. 11, 22.
Yea! trouble springs not from the ground, yet must it ever be,
Man knows that he is born to care, so seeks his remedy;
And he hath found out store of charms and spells to give it rest,
Yet grief turns from human comforters, the Highest is the best!
Man knows that he is born to care, so seeks his remedy;
And he hath found out store of charms and spells to give it rest,
Yet grief turns from human comforters, the Highest is the best!
One saith, "Be comforted, for grief is idle and is vain,
It never hath brought back the smile to Joy's dead face again,
It only fixes there the look it wore when Hope took leave;
Yes, grief is vain, I know it well, and therefore will I grieve."
It never hath brought back the smile to Joy's dead face again,
It only fixes there the look it wore when Hope took leave;
Yes, grief is vain, I know it well, and therefore will I grieve."
