Verse 1

ALL as God wills, who wisely heeds To give or to withhold, And knoweth more of all my needs Than all my prayers have told.

Verse 2

Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track; That, wheresoe’er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back.

Verse 3

That more and more a providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good;

Verse 4

That death seems but a covered way Which opens into light Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father’s sight;

Verse 5

That care and trial seem at last, Through memory’s sunset air, Like mountain ranges overpast, In purple distance fair;

Verse 6

That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending in psalms, And all the angles of its strife Slow rounding into calm.

Verse 7

And so the shadows fall apart, And so the west winds play; And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Background: All As God Wills Who Wisely Heeds