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Text:When on Quiet Seas I Sail
Author:Eleanor Allen Schroll
Tune:[When on quiet seas I sail]
Composer:J. H. Fillmore

36. When on Quiet Seas I Sail

1 When on quiet seas I sail,
Or when blows the stormy gale,
This I pray, come any test,
Strength to say, God knoweth best.

2 Come my share of weal or woe,
Stronger, braver will I grow,
Pray, and leave to Him the rest,
Time will prove, God knoweth best.

3 So shall gain or bitter loss
Draw me nearer to the cross;
E’en by trials sore oppressed,
I will sing, God knoweth best.

Text Information
First Line: When on quiet seas I sail
Title: When on Quiet Seas I Sail
Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll
Language: English
Publication Date: 1920
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [When on quiet seas I sail]
Composer: J. H. Fillmore
Incipit: 56712 12712 3434
Notes: Public Domain.



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