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Text:I Know Not If or Dark or Bright
Author:Henry Alford
Tune:MIDDLETOWN
Composer:C. T. W. , 1847-?
Harmonizer:Karl P. Harrington

2855. I Know Not If or Dark or Bright

1. I know not if or dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best or not.

2. It may be mine to drag for years
Toil’s heavy chain,
Or day and night my meat be tears
On bed of pain.

3. Dear faces may surround my health
With smiles and glee,
Or I may dwell alone, and mirth
Be strange to me.

4. My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath divine,
And on its helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.

5. One who was known in storms to sail
I have on board;
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear my Lord.

6. Safe to the land! safe to the land!
The end is this,
And then with Him go hand in hand,
Far into bliss.

Text Information
First Line: I know not if or dark or bright
Title: I Know Not If or Dark or Bright
Author: Henry Alford (1862)
Meter: 84.84
Language: English
Source: MacMillan's Magazine, 1863
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: MIDDLETOWN
Harmonizer: Karl P. Harrington (1905)
Composer: C. T. W. , 1847-?
Meter: 84.84
Incipit: 33343 32232 65555
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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