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The Highlands of Affliction
1: Out of the highlands of affliction
Comes many a soul ablaze
With visions of things as yet unseen,
Beyond earth’s hastening days.
2: So too from the bitt’rest of trials
May come the sweetest of songs,
As gold in the blazing furnace tried
By struggles and ills and wrongs.
3: From a heart once broken the Artist
May form Him a masterpiece.
Beauty for ashes be given then,
The fullness of joy, increased.
4: Up from turmoil and doubting may rise
A faith yet more sure and strong.
For the trials of life work patience
When rough is the track, and long.
5: From out the valley of death and shade;
A herald of life to come.
“O Death where now is thy sting and where
The vict’ry which thou hast won?”
6: From out the thorn and the scourge and cross;
Salvation, redemption’s might.
From out the grave and the darkness came
The dawn of Eternal Light.
