Whatever Is - Is Best

Under Each Rank of Wrong,

Somewhere There Lies the Root of Right

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I know as my life grows older

And mine eyes have clearer sight –

That under each rank of wrong, somewhere

There lies the root of Right;

That each sorrow has its purpose,

By the sorrowing oft unguessed,

But as sure as the sun brings morning,

Whatever is – is best.

I know that each sinful action

As sure as the night brings shade,

Is somewhere, some time punished,

Tho’ the hour be long delayed.

I know that the soul is aided

Sometimes by the heart’s unrest,

And to grow means often to suffer –

But whatever is – is best.

I know there are no errors

In the great Eternal plan,

And all things work together

For the final good of man.

And I know when my soul speeds onward

In its grand Eternal quest,

I shall say as I look back earthward

Whatever is – is best.

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Reproduced from the book “Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox”, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, Edinburgh, undated, probably 1917, 527 pages, see p. 80.

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