Bright Thoughts for a Dark Day - Pamelia Sarah Yule

Will the shadows be lifted to-morrow? — 

Will the sunshine come ever again? — 

Will the clouds, that are weeping in sorrow,

Their glorious beauty regain? 

Will the forest stand forth in its greenness? — 

The meadows smile sweet as before? — 

And the sky, in its placid sereneness. 

Bend lovingly o'er us once more? 

Will the birds sing again as we heard them, 

Ere the tempest their gentle notes hushed? — 

Will the breeze float again in its freedom, 

Where lately its melody gushed? 

Will the beautiful angel of sunset 

Drape the heavens in crimson and gold, 

As the day-king serenely retireth

'Mid grandeur and glory untold? 

Yes the clouds will be lifted to-morrow, 

From valley, and hill-top, and plain; 

And sunshine, and gladness, and beauty 

Will visit the landscape again; — 

The forest, the field, and the river 

Will bask in the joy-giving ray; 

And the angel of sunset, as ever. 

Will smile o'er the farewell of day. 

For the longest day hastes to its ending, — 

The darkest night speeds to the day; — 

O'er thickest clouds, ever, the sunbeam 

Shines on with unfaltering ray; — 

Though thou walk amid shadows, thy Father 

Makes His word and his promises thine; 

And, whatever the storms that may gather, 

At length thro' the gloom He will shine! 

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Pamelia Sarah Yule (1826 - 1897) Canada

Source: Poems of the Heart and Home by Mrs. J. C. Yule (Pamela S. Vining), Bengough, Moore & Co., 1881