Give Me an Understanding Heart

BERNICE MADELINE WELLS

Give me an understanding heart,
O Lord,—this is my prayer;
Thy healing strength would I impart,
To ease earth's weary care;
Clasp Thy kind hand,
And understand;
Ah—this my prayer.

Give me, I pray, the power to see
The tears behind the smile;
To speak Thy word so tenderly,
That hearts are healed from guile;
So lives now sad
May be more glad,
And sweetly rest the while.