desire sincere the soul’s Prayer is

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