And find, at last, beneath Thy trees of healing,
The life for which I long.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Auld Lang Syne
Under this title, though sometimes called a “hymn of comfort,” Rev. John W. Chadwick wrote the following lines for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his church:
It singeth low in every heart,
We hear it each and all—
A song of those who answer not,
Forever we may call;
They throng the silence of the breast,