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