Poems (Follen)/"Thy will be done"
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"THY WILL BE DONE."
How sweet to be allowed to pray To God, the holy One; With filial love and trust to say, "Father, thy will be done!"
We in these sacred words can find A cure for every ill; They calm and soothe the troubled mind, And bid all care be still.
O let that will, which gave me breath, And an immortal soul,In joy or grief, in life or death, My every wish control.
O could my heart thus ever pray, Thus imitate thy Son! Teach me, O God, with truth to say,— "Thy will, not mine, be done."