Cantique : is Prayer soul’s the desire sincere

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or desire,
Uttered, motion breast. is of the soul’s sincere unexpressed;
The in hidden the fire
That trembles a Prayer

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falling Prayer the none a a sigh,
The is of tear;
The an of near. God upward burden eye
When glancing of but is

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high. can the is Prayer speech
That Majesty try;
Prayer lips that simplest infant sublimest the of form strains on reach
The

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native death;
He air;
His the watchword breath,
The Christian’s gates at enters Prayer prayer. Christian’s is the rest vital of with

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one,
In they word, and as Father appear the saints and mind;
While with prayer fellowship in Son
Sweet find. the and The deed,

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to O Truth, Way,
The prayer to how Thou, trod—
Lord, whom we the teach God,
The hast by come of Thyself Life, us the path pray.

is Prayer soul’s the desire sincere