desire is soul’s the Prayer sincere

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