ContentShall I complain because on me is laidThe common burden of this world of pain?No more my heart shall throb to joy’s sweet strain;The path leads on through sorrow’s darkest shade.Yet midst the gloom I venture, unafraid;The power that gave me love will still sustain.That which is mine forever shall remain,Whatever powers against me are arrayed.My shining ones! The glory round you castFails to illumine all the desert spaceAnd every wayward path my feet may choose.No ruthless fate can rob me of my past.Beyond death’s gloom I see each radiant face.God help those women who have naught to lose!SARAH D. HOBART.
Shall I complain because on me is laidThe common burden of this world of pain?No more my heart shall throb to joy’s sweet strain;The path leads on through sorrow’s darkest shade.Yet midst the gloom I venture, unafraid;The power that gave me love will still sustain.That which is mine forever shall remain,Whatever powers against me are arrayed.My shining ones! The glory round you castFails to illumine all the desert spaceAnd every wayward path my feet may choose.No ruthless fate can rob me of my past.Beyond death’s gloom I see each radiant face.God help those women who have naught to lose!SARAH D. HOBART.
Shall I complain because on me is laidThe common burden of this world of pain?No more my heart shall throb to joy’s sweet strain;The path leads on through sorrow’s darkest shade.Yet midst the gloom I venture, unafraid;The power that gave me love will still sustain.That which is mine forever shall remain,Whatever powers against me are arrayed.My shining ones! The glory round you castFails to illumine all the desert spaceAnd every wayward path my feet may choose.No ruthless fate can rob me of my past.Beyond death’s gloom I see each radiant face.God help those women who have naught to lose!SARAH D. HOBART.
Shall I complain because on me is laidThe common burden of this world of pain?No more my heart shall throb to joy’s sweet strain;The path leads on through sorrow’s darkest shade.Yet midst the gloom I venture, unafraid;The power that gave me love will still sustain.That which is mine forever shall remain,Whatever powers against me are arrayed.
Shall I complain because on me is laid
The common burden of this world of pain?
No more my heart shall throb to joy’s sweet strain;
The path leads on through sorrow’s darkest shade.
Yet midst the gloom I venture, unafraid;
The power that gave me love will still sustain.
That which is mine forever shall remain,
Whatever powers against me are arrayed.
My shining ones! The glory round you castFails to illumine all the desert spaceAnd every wayward path my feet may choose.No ruthless fate can rob me of my past.Beyond death’s gloom I see each radiant face.God help those women who have naught to lose!
My shining ones! The glory round you cast
Fails to illumine all the desert space
And every wayward path my feet may choose.
No ruthless fate can rob me of my past.
Beyond death’s gloom I see each radiant face.
God help those women who have naught to lose!
SARAH D. HOBART.
SARAH D. HOBART.