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Welcome Cross.

By William Cowper

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Tis my happiness below     Not to live without the cross,     But the Saviours power to know,     Sanctifying every loss:     Trials must and will befall;     But with humble faith to see     Love inscribed upon them all,     This is happiness to me.     God in Israel sows the seeds     Of affliction, pain, and toil;     These spring up and choke the weeds     Which would else oerspread the soil:     Trials make the promise sweet,     Trials give new life to prayer;     Trials bring me to his feet,     Lay me low, and keep me there.     Did I meet no trials here,     No chastisement by the way:     Might I not, with reason, fear     I should prove a castaway?     Bastards may escape the rod,[1]     Sunk in earthly, vain delight;     But the true born child of God     Must not, would not, if he might.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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