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I Will Not Be Comforted Because One Is Not

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There is a gladness over all the earth,     For summer is abroad in breezy mirth,     Nature rejoices and the heavens are glad,     And I alone am desolate and sad,     For I sit mourning by an empty cot,     Refusing comfort because one is not.     And I will mourn because I am bereaved,     Others have suffered others too have grieved     Over hopes broken even as mine are broke,     By a swift unexpected bitter stroke,     And I must weep as weeping Jacob prest,     To grieving lips his last ones princely vest     You tell me cease weeping, to resign     Unto the Father's a will this will of mine,     You say my lamb is on the Shepherd s breast,     My flower blooms in gardens of the blest,     I know it all I say, Thy will be done     Yet I must mourn for him--my son! my son!

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