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Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay

revised and illustrated edition

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LOOK YOU, I'LL GO PRAY

Look you, I'll go pray
My shame is crying,
My soul is gray and faint,
My faith is dying.
Look you, I'll go pray—
“Sweet Mary, make me clean,
Thou rainstorm of the soul,
Thou wine from worlds unseen.”