Solace
Carl Noseda
I praise the one who gave me great happiness
and lofty song;
even in sorrow I will praise him
my whole life long.
To me, what I have lost is
a certain heavenly pledge;
Sorrow leads me by a strong hand
to Him above.
If in my bliss I apprehensively deplored
the flight of time,
in grief, I meet brightly the arrival of
immortality.