Why Should I Fear?

Verse 1

Sometimes He leads thru pastures green, And by the waters still, Where ferns and leafy branches lean To kiss the rippling rill.

Verse 2

Sometimes He leads thru deserts bare; Across the briny deep; Mid tempests wild, and lightning’s glare; And up the mountains steep.

Verse 3

But ev’rywhere, in shine and shade, Upon the sea and land, My Shepherd says, “Be not afraid” For “I will hold thy hand.”

Verse 4

What reason, then, have I for fear? His voice I will obey, And follow, not “afar,” but near; He leads me all the way.