Oh yet we trust that somehow good

  Oh yet we trust that somehow good
    Will be the final goal of ill,
    To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;

That nothing walks with aimless feet;
    That not one life shall be destroy'd,
    Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;

That not a worm is cloven in vain;
    That not a moth with vain desire
    Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another's gain.

Behold, we know not anything;
    I can but trust that good shall fall
    At last -- far off -- at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.

So runs my dream: but what am I?
    An infant crying in the night:
    An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , 1849, from In Memoriam A. H. H. obiit MDCCCXXXIII, no. 54, published 1850

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975) , "O yet we trust", published 1975 [soprano, baritone, SATB chorus, and orchestra], from Shield of Faith, no. ?
by Edith A. Bracken , "Oh yet we trust", <<1892. [voice and piano]
by Mrs. E. G. Shapcote , "Oh yet we trust that somehow good", published 1857 [voice and piano], from Eleven songs, no. ?

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