| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Memorials of Theophilus Trinal, Student (1850).
I. Reasoning with God | | By Thomas Toke Lynch (1818–1871) |
| | | O HIDDEN Lord, most wise and rich, | |
| Whom oft I love, but often fear; | |
| Of light and dark, oft doubting which, | |
| Doth most upon Thy works appear: | |
| Why, if in Thee no darkness is, | 5 |
| So deep a shade on human kind? | |
| If Thou be Father, tell me this, | |
| Why the sad heart, the troubled mind? | |
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| Then said a voice, “This truth within thee store, | |
| And wait, believing, ere thou askest more: | 10 |
| Earth is a cloud which Time shall puff away, | |
| Then shalt thou see the heaven and feel the day.” | | | | |
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