| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Hymns and Poems.
III. Where? When? How? | | By Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
| | | WHERE? Tell me what shall be the spot | |
| Where I shall rest from earthly care? | |
| You need not tell—it matters not, | |
| To senseless dust and ashes—where! | |
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| When? Shall it be my mortal fate | 5 |
| Longer or shorter to remain | |
| Waiting for death or soon or late? | |
| How little does it matter when! | |
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| How? That is wrapt in mystery; | |
| I ask not its solution now: | 10 |
| He who directs all issues,—He | |
| And He alone can order—how! | |
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| But this my trust, my joy shall be, | |
| The where, the when, the how, are His | |
| Whose infinite benignity | 15 |
| Is love and light, and peace and bliss! | | | | |
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