“Did you ask the Lord for victory,

Plead for it in prayer,

And life’s battle surged around you,

Hid His face so fair?

Ah, my child, He heard and answered,

Answered your own prayer;

For we learn to be victorious,

By the daily cross we bear.”

(This is stanza 4 of a poem by Josephine Hope Westervelt found in the book Streams in the Desert.  I will post addition stanzas in the days to come.)