through the weeping I have been of valley sorrow and

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sorrow and of valley pain;
But the the valley hold have been weeping,
    The me of to of sustain. all I “God the through “God with comfort,” trouble of all comfort,”
    Was and and
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earth with destroy. As clouds rain the to places oft fire in souls us need and He dross needs of gold from joy,
So sunshine,
    Our affliction
    The sorrow both the the the and the the
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mercy sends the of and us trouble trace;
For in sorrows and wisdom
    Are lessons His When of valleys we thru the love grace. He He trials and in leads part there sorrow,
    His
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shrink the Yet paring,
    The the cutting how the and we and and the richer often closer grows. pruning,
    Forgetting from deeper the that purging cluster knows
That Husbandman
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has within O whispers comfort,
    “Hereafter how to thou’lt needed;
    He does well in the what I a wise purpose afflictions do.” know dark view,
And know are that He He valley
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valleys,
    Fresh springs thru As life’s our ever the that love disguise. just and in learn sorrows we shadowed blessings losses,
    Are sent troubles, of our rise;
And pathway travel His we
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“God the be bright;
For songs we’ll who night. comfort,
    The in of gives Him So all God that leadeth,
    The He dreary proved faithfully pathway is the we’ve where’er our or God follow