Till We Come To The End Of The Road

 

Poor little gangling orphan

Poor little motherless mule

Maybe you don’t know it, but,

You’re started in Life’s hard school.

 

Though you’re only a beast of burden

God gave you a heart and I know

All things created by his wise plan

Have a place in this world below.

 

I believe when the Creator made you

That it was part of His plan

To leave you an orphan at scarce three months

‘Tis the way that He ruleth man.

 

Of course you haven’t the wisdom

(For that matter, neither have we,)

to understand why the kind Father above

Should cause such things to be.

 

Why he should take your mother

And leave you an orphan sad,

Why from time to time discouragements

Are heaped on my poor old Dad.

 

But it is not mine to question
The wisdom of God above

But yours and mine it is always

To follow – and trust His love

 

Oh it isn’t so much the value

As it is the discouraging load

We must shoulder along as we ever press on

Till we come to the end of the road.

 

Written by Ida May Schaffer