I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.


The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.