Prayer the is sincere desire soul’s

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