“What He tells thee in the darkness,
Weary watcher for the day,
Grateful lip and heart should utter
When the shadows flee away.”

—  Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 10.

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British poet and hymn-writer 1836–1879

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