All Things Dark and Dreadful
Richard
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All things dark and dreadful,
All terrors great and small,
All things cruel and woeful—
The Lord God made ______ all.
The storm that shreds the forest,
The fire ______ scars the land,
The plague that haunts the cities,
______ wrought by His own hand.
The beggar cold and starving,
The tyrant on his throne,
The child left lost ______ weeping—
He made them, every one.
The vulture and ______ serpent,
The poison in the well,
The sickness in ______ cradle,
The tolling funeral bell.
The wars that burn ______ nations,
The greed that rules the day,
The hatred ______ in silence—
He did not turn away.
He gave ______ eyes to witness,
And lips to cry in vain,
______ vast is God Almighty,
Who fashioned joy and pain.