Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Hymns and Poems. III. Where? When? How?Sir John Bowring (1792–1872)
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Where I shall rest from earthly care?
You need not tell—it matters not,
To senseless dust and ashes—where!
Longer or shorter to remain
Waiting for death or soon or late?
How little does it matter when!
I ask not its solution now:
He who directs all issues,—He
And He alone can order—how!
The where, the when, the how, are His
Whose infinite benignity
Is love and light, and peace and bliss!