Tired of ourselves and of being alone.

And all the while, did we only see,

We walk in the Lord’s own company;

We fight, but ’tis he who nerves our arm,

He turns the arrows which else might harm,

And out of the storm he brings a calm.

The work which we count so hard to do,

He makes it easy, for he works too;

The days that are long to live are his,

A bit of his bright eternities,