Let Us Learn

Oh, what a heavy load And oh, how long this road And farther on it goes To what end I do not know To what end I do not know And oh, what man can know What sorrows lay on fellow souls Oh, no man can know The weight of sorrow not his own The weight of sorrow no man knows So let us learn to love Our brothers here below Let us bear them up and make strong our fragile hope And oh, my gentle friend How glad I am That you lent your hand My wounds for you I bled And you made of me a wiser man A steady mind in an aching head So let us learn to love Our brothers here below Let us bear them up and make strong our fragile hope And oh, great God above Please hear the cry of the one You love And oh, great God below Show me how to walk this road And help me bear this heavy load Let us learn to love Our brothers here below Let us bear them up and make strong our fragile hope And when we come to die Let the earth receive our bones For the day is coming soon when our God will make us whole