sincere desire is the soul’s Prayer

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