desire Prayer is sincere the soul’s

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