| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Twilight Hours.
IX. God’s Way | | By Sarah Williams (“Sadie”) (1841–1868) |
| | (From “Responses”)
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord.” |
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I SAID, “The darkness shall content my soul;” | |
| God said, “Let there be light.” | |
| I said, “The night shall see me reach my goal;” | |
| Instead came dawning bright. | |
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| I bared my head to meet the smiter’s stroke: | 5 |
| There came sweet dropping oil. | |
| I waited, trembling, but the voice that spoke, | |
| Said gently, “Cease thy toil.” | |
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| I looked for evil, stern of face and pale; | |
| Came good, too fair to tell. | 10 |
| I leant on God when other joys did fail; | |
| He gave me these as well. | | | |
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