Sore In Need Was I Of A Faithful Friend, And It Seemed To Me That Life Had Come To Its Much Desired End - Just Then God Gave Me A Wife. I Had Seen The Beauty Of Fairy Things, And Seen The Women Walk; I Had Heard The Voice Of The Seven Sins And All The Wonderful Talk. Ah, The Promising Earth That Seems So Kind, And The Comrades With Outstretched Hand - But Did You Ever Stand Alone In A Black, Forsaken Land? Then The Wonderful Things That God Can Do One Comes To Understand: How He Turns The Desert Dust To A Dream, And The Lonely Wind To A Friend, And Makes A Bright Beginning Of What Had Seemed The End: 'Twas In Such An Hour God Placed In Mine The Moonbeam Hand Of A Friend.