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What Silence Will Teach

1897

Fanny J. Crosby

Ella/Ellen DALE

fr. Bertini

Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy

508

2/4

Eb

3

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1. Listen and learn what the silence will teach, A lesson that passeth in wonder all speech. Splendors eternal, that growing in grace Flow from the inner to outermost place. Truth in its grandeur here waits to impart Needs of the soul and needs of the heart. Hope, with its snowy white pinons, proclaims Rescue of race from the thralldom of pains. 2. Freedom of spirit in ecstacy soars, Bearing its brightness to farthermost shores. 'Tis in the silence the soul meets its own, Mounts to its height, and is crowned on its throne; Finds in the boundless no bars to defeat, Drinks in a peace that is perfect and sweet; Feels in the vastness the throb of a heart That is of its life the centermost part. 3. Pulsing and beating in rhythmical time, All of the universe falls into line. Currents of being sweep in and around, Lifting us up without jarring or sound. Caring for us in the tenderest way, Healing all hurts as the infinite may. Sit in the silence that we may behold Life and its laws writ in letters of gold.