Like Another New Day

Never have I seen the darkest night

Snuff the lamp of the rising dawn,

Nor a bleak winter with all its might

Smother the spring's dreamy yawn.

Yet again, not every day is bright,

Darkest nights are born on a day;

Let history our actions 

and lessons light,

For peace and love to God ever pray.

O poor soul, hast thou lost thy bright sun,

The sap of thy summer all wasted in vain;

Hast thou lost all thy leaves to autumn,

Pray to God for a fresh leaf to start again

O Joy that seekest me through pain,

I cannot close my heart to thee.

I trace the rainbow through the rain,

and feel the promise is not vain,

that morn shall tearless be.

O Cross that liftest up my head,

I dare not ask to fly from thee.

I lay in the dust, life’s glory dead,

and from the ground there blossoms red,

a life that shall endless be