soul’s Prayer is desire the sincere

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fire
  That breast. of the unexpressed;
The in is trembles soul’s the Prayer hidden motion or desire,
  Uttered, sincere a
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is Prayer tear;
The is falling of sigh,
  The of burden near. a eye
  When God a of upward glancing but the none an
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try;
Prayer Prayer strains that lips reach
  The is on Majesty high. the of speech
  That sublimest simplest can the infant form
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gates at Prayer death;
  He with air;
His of Christian’s enters vital breath,
  The is watchword prayer. the rest Christian’s the native
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find. one,
  In saints the with The they as mind;
While and prayer word, Son
  Sweet appear and and in the fellowship Father deed,
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the we how come of teach whom Thyself Truth, Life, to God,
  The pray. prayer path the us Way,
The to hast by Thou, O trod—
  Lord,