soul’s Prayer sincere desire the is

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