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Time of Trouble

If shadows hide the sun away
What use to sigh about it -
Go on - about your work, and say
If sun shine cant be ours today
We'll get along without it.
If things go wrong, let worrying go -
What good can come of fretting
It may be it is better so -
God plans it all and He must know
So spare your vain regretting
There is a sunshine that makes good
The lack of sun - above us
And all might find it, if they would
In cheerful word, and happy mood
And smiles of those who love us.

Then let us smile, when skies are gray
And laugh at stormy weather
And sing lifes lonesome hours away
So worry, and the dreariest day
Will find an end together.