Give to the winds thy fears

~ Give to the winds thy fears ~

Give to the winds thy fears,

Hope and be undismayed,

God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,

God shall lift up thy head.

Through waves and clouds and storms,

He gently clears thy way;

Wait thou his time, so shall this night

Soon end in joyous day.

Still heavy is thy heart, 

Still sink thy spirits down;

Cast off the weight, let fear depart,

And every care be gone.

What though thou rulest not,

Yet heaven, and earth, and hell,

Proclaim, God sitteth on the throne,

And ruleth all things well.

Leave to his sovereign sway

To choose and to command,

So shalt thou wondering own his way,

How wise, how strong his hand!

Far, far above thy thought

His counsel shall appear,

When fully he the work that wrought,

That caused thy needless fear.

Thou seest our weakness, Lord,

Our hearts are known to thee;

O lift thou up the sinking heart,

Confirm the feeble knee.

Let us in life, in death,

Thy stedfast truth declare,

And publish with our latest breath

Thy love and guardian care.

John Wesley