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Dinah Maria Mulock - A Lancashire Doxology
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"PRAISE God from whom all blessings flow."  
   Praise Him who sendeth joy and woe.
   The Lord who takes, — the Lord who gives, —
   O praise Him, all that dies, and lives.
   He opens and He shuts his hand,
   But why, we cannot understand:
   Pours and dries up his mercies` flood,
   And yet is still All-perfect Good.
   We fathom not the mighty plan,
  The mystery of God and man;
  We women, when afflictions come,
  We only suffer and are dumb.
  And when, the tempest passing by,
  He gleams out, sun-like, through our sky,
  We look up, and through black clouds riven,
  We recognize the smile of Heaven.
  Ours is not wisdom of the wise,
  We have no deep philosophies:
  Childlike we take both kiss and rod,
  For he who loveth knoweth God.
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