Cantique : Prayer is soul’s sincere desire the

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prayer is soul’s sincere desire the