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  4. Because I Knew Not When My Life Was Good

Music & HymnsBecause I Knew Not When My Life Was Good

"Repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance." Acts 26:20

Words: Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours, 1868, alt.

Music: "Peace," George Whitefield Chadwick, 1890

Because I knew not when my life was good,
And when there was a light upon my path,
But turned my soul perversely to the dark,
O Lord, I do repent.

Because I held upon my selfish road,
And left my brother wounded by the way,
And called ambition duty, and pressed on,
O Lord, I do repent.

Because I spent the strength Thou gavest me
In struggle which Thou never didst ordain,
And have imperfect life to offer Thee,
O Lord, I do repent.

Because I was impatient, would not wait,
And thrust my willful hand across Thy threads,
And marred the pattern drawn out for my life,
O Lord, I do repent.

Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website