Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES


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AS THY DAYS SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God broke our years to hours and days
Last Line: We only bear the burden by the hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George
Variant Title(s): Hour By Hour
Subject(s): Religion; Time; Worship; Theology


God broke our years to hours and days, that
Hour by hour
And day by day,
We might be able all along
To keep quite strong.
Should all the weight of life
Be laid across our shoulders, and the future, rife
With woe and struggle, meet us face to face
At just one place,
We could not go;
Our feet would stop; and so
God lays a little on us every day.
And never, I believe, on all the way,
Will burdens bear so deep
Or pathways lie so steep
But we can go, if by God's power,
We only bear the burden by the hour.





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