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"If I Forget Yet God Remembers" by Robert Browning

If I forget, yet God remembers.
If these hands of mine cease from their clinging,
Yet the hands Divine hold me so firmly I cannot fall.
And if sometimes I am too tired to call for Him to help me,
Then he reads the prayer unspoken in my heart and lifts my care.
I dare not fear since certainly I know that I am in God’s keeping,
Shielded so, from all that else would harm.
And in the hour of stern temptation, strengthened by His power.
I tread no path in life to him unknown;
I lift no burden, bear no pain alone;
My soul a calm, sure hiding place has found:
The Everlasting Arms my life surround.
God, Thou art love! I built my faith on that.
I know Thee who has kept my path.
And made light for me in the darkness,
Tempering sorrow so that it reached me like a solemn joy.
It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.

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