Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-08-04
.rbere is q Silver Lining to Every Cloud"

"Tbere is a Silver Lining to Every Cloud"
Tn this world there are a thousand weary
troubles to aff1ict and sadden the mourner's
heart. there are q thousand dark and gloomy
clonds-clouds ominous and terrible-clouds
of var and observation-disclosures of disease and
death-of sorrow and watching-of the rude
seyer;og of the hearts fondest and most
cherished ties-of giving to the crying hun
oer ,f the rayenous grave the dearest idols
of the soul-of misfortunes without number
l-of grief, the canker worm--of many
burthens, all like gloomy clouds ominous
and terrible; but to every one there is a ra-
diant silver lining that lights with joyous
comfort its rugged and darkest edge! This
world is full Of countless ills, of sorrow and
yexations without number and their giant
shadows cast a gloom in our pathway, but
out from the darkness the silver lining
shines. and it-shineth a light to our feet
Although our flesh grow weary, and our
spirit grow faint, and the soul tremble at
the terrible darkness, yet we thank God that
from every cloud, however grim and fore
boding, a light shineth-a light of silver-a
light that ~ctsssthe heart by its mellowed
rays-a glad and merry-silvery light from
the bright rng Of sorrows cloud!
We are iyessR paAagled cup there are clouds
and stingJl srns, but they all are lined
with a silvery. tissue, whose web is the bless
ings Of tbs earth, whose wool is the smiles
Of Heaven, and the rich benefits of Our Ia
thcr God! Sorrows and untold Affections
crouch in our pathway, but to every cloud
a silver lining is given that shineth brightly
and shineth gladly to our feet.
Who is it that looks alone to the dark
pencilings on the gliding panorama Of life ?
Who seeks alone the dark pitfalls and snares?
Who repines by reason of his lot being cast
in a world where the mingled cup is given =?
! Who looks alone on the dark clouds on the
! fitting panorama of life, and mourns and
! takes the burden of grief! Brother, Sister,
} look with gratitude on the other side, does
9 il not gladden. thy eye and warm thy hear
{ when thou seest the silver lining thy Father
hath given to shine before thee, a %silvery
light to thy feet in the dark and dangerou.
I ground?
o The storms of this direful war that how
/ so dismally now, will yet die away into tn
0 music of divinely sweet peace; the sorrow
. that hedge in our way at present, will b
" gone like the snow on the mountains to
u, morrow; the beds where the thorns Of a
q Fiction spring will be the green plots wher
:, the roses and hyssop display their beaut
and fragrance; the fountain that gushes i
angry streams the bitter wavelets of Mara
ws4a-v~uwrs wright spay upon the thirs
ty daisy; the deep lamentation of the hear
that cries out in the anguish of bereavement
lie snail be changed to a chorus of wild an
%ecStatlc JOY; for the mourner may meet hi
st buried friends in fresh life and beauty agai
IN the gardens of the skies, where Low
reigneth forever and where death and sor
row no more cometh !! How true # is tho
every cloud in life, in death is blest with
gladstone silver lining that shines a light +
n the weary heart, to our pathway, and shi-
meth a beacon lamp to our feet It is tn,
y light that shines on every troubling cloud
. it is the light that shines by stars on earth
in and it is the light of silver that shineth. an,
$. now is shining in Heaven!
"Sorrow may endure for a night. Inf IL,
cometh in the morning."