BURDEN-BEARERS

By William Arthur Dunkerley

Burden-bearers are we all,

Great and small.

Burden-sharers be ye all,

Great and small!

Where another shares the load,

Two draw nearer God.

Yet there are burdens we can share with none,

Save God;

And paths remote where we must walk alone,

With God;

For lonely burden and for path apart —

Thank God!

If these but serve to bring the burdened heart

To God.