SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE

Unanswered yet the prayer your lips have pleaded

In agony of heart these many years?

Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing?

And think you all in vain those falling tears?

Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer;

You shall have your desire sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet?--though when you first presented

This one petition at the Father's throne

It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,

So urgent was your heart to make it known!

Though years have passed since then, do not despair;

The Lord will answer you sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Nay, do not say ungranted;

Perhaps your work is not yet wholly done.

The work began when first your prayer was uttered,

And God will finish what he has begun.

If you will keep the incense burning there

His glory you shall see sometime, somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered,

Her feet were firmly planted on the Rock;

Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,

Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.

She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,

And cries, "It shall be done"--sometime, somewhere.

--Miss Ophelia G. Browning.