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A PRAYER.
Let me live in quiet joy
Simple-hearted as a boy,
Asking alms of vale and fountain,
Begging beauty from the mountain;
Quick to answer smiles of God
Gold and gracious on the sod.
Simple-hearted as a boy,
Asking alms of vale and fountain,
Begging beauty from the mountain;
Quick to answer smiles of God
Gold and gracious on the sod.
Let me learn your larger speech,
Oak of heaven, breathing beech!
Ye whose lips of foliage shout
Mighty ballads round about
While the doves, deserting song,
In your bosoms listen long.
Oak of heaven, breathing beech!
Ye whose lips of foliage shout
Mighty ballads round about
While the doves, deserting song,
In your bosoms listen long.
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Wash me, rain, and lave me, dew!
Ah, to grow as pure as you!
Bending bravely to my labour,
God for guide and love for neighbour—
Just a child of star and stream,
Filled with sunshine, touched by dream.
Ah, to grow as pure as you!
Bending bravely to my labour,
God for guide and love for neighbour—
Just a child of star and stream,
Filled with sunshine, touched by dream.
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