Rejoice

 

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice     (Phil - 4:4)

“Sing a little song of trust,  

O my heart!  

Sing it just because you must,  

As leaves start;  

As flowers push their way through dust;  

Sing, my heart, because you must.  

“Wait not for an eager throng  

Bird on bird;  

’Tis the solitary song  

That is heard.  

Every voice at dawn will start,  

Be a nightingale, my heart!  

“Sing across the winter snow,  

Pierce the cloud;  

Sing when mists are drooping low  

Clear and loud;  

But sing sweetest in the dark;  

He who slumbers not will hark.”  

“An’ when He hears yo’ sing, He bends down wid a smile on His kin’ face an’ listens mighty cheerful, an’ He says, ’Sing on, chile, I hears, an’ I’s comin’ down to deliber yo’: I’ll tote dat load fer yo’; jest lean hawd on Me and de road will get smoother bime by.”’