There is no sorrow, Lord, too light

There is no sorrow, Lord, too light. Jane Crewdson* (1809-1863). This is from ‘A Little While’, and Other Poems, (Manchester, 1864), where is began ‘There is no grief, however light’, placed under the quotation ‘“Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.” - 1 Peter v.vii.’. However, like Crewdson’s ‘Oh, for the peace that floweth as a river’*, this may have been known earlier, because it was printed in Benjamin Hall Kennedy*’s Hymnologia Christiana (1863).With the changed first line, as above, it is found in Scottish books, such as the Church Hymnary (1898) and RCH, and in MHB and AHB. There have been so many alterations to the text. The original text was as follows:  There is...