ALL things change around us! Day by day,
Dear familiar voices die away;
Gentle lives, that used to touch our own,
Pass beyond us to the land unown;
And the winding pathway of the years
Leads us often through a vale of tears.
Only One, of all our hearts love best,
Stands unchanged beside us—bears the test
Of our deepest helplessness and need—
Bends to take our empty hands, and lead
From our loss, and loneliness and pain,
To the wealth of His eternal gain.
Only One is true! And as we turn
To His perfect love, at last we learn
How the things of earth, that used to seem
All our highest good, were but a dream;
And, although our cherished idols fall,
How, in finding God, we find our all.