’Tis but one struggle more, and thou art free!

O, trembling soul! thou’rt struggling into life!

Yet there is meaning in thine agony;

There’s reason for this last heart rending strife;

Thou canst not bear to leave thine own beloved wife!

XX.

God will support her in her hour of need;

She’ll have no friend but God to lean upon;

He surely will not break the bruised reed,

And bruised her heart will be when thou art gone!