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At the End of the Road

No matter if clouds have over shadowed the way

Author: Birdie Bell
Tune: [No matter if clouds have overshadowed the way]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 No matter if clouds have o’er-shadowed the way,
This thought like a beacon has glowed;
It brightened the journey from day unto day,
There is light at the end of the road.

Refrain:
At the end of the road shall the light ever glow,
There the rest that was promised I know;
And the joy which I craved as I journeyed below,
Will be found at the end of the road.

2 No matter that burdens have come to my life,
I bore ev’ry wearisome load;
This promise is mine, ‘midst the toil and the strife,
There is rest at the end of the road. [Refrain]

3 No matter how often the sorrows would come,
This thought in my spirit abode;
Each day I am nearer my heavenly home,
There is joy at the end of the road. [Refrain]

Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #167

Author: Birdie Bell

C. Louise Bell, also known a Birdie Bell, was born, raised and lived in New York city. She began writing hymns when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of more than 500 hymns, 200 religious poems, and 200 Christmas and Easter lyrics, as well as short stories, and articles. She wrote under the name of Birdie Bell, which is what her family called her. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: No matter if clouds have over shadowed the way
Title: At the End of the Road
Author: Birdie Bell
Language: English
Refrain First Line: At the end of the road shall the light ever glow
Publication Date: 1917
Copyright: Public Domain

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Jubilate #167

Jubilate Sunday School Hymnal #167

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