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Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me,
My peace and pardon to procure,
The lighter cross I bear for Thee,
Help me with patience to endure

In childhood's pride I said to Thee: "O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath, Speak,
Master, and reveal to me Thine inmost laws of life and death
"Give me to drink each joy and pain Which Thine eternal hand can mete, For my insati...

O Lord who is there besides You who will hear my cry
Strange is my petition: a poor man,
I,
I seek to become a king…From time immemorial I have suffered the tortures of hell and have lived through many low births, but I crave not fo...

When I a verse shall make,
Know I have pray'd thee,
For old religion's sake,
Saint Ben to aid me

For those my unbaptized rhymes,
Writ in my wild unhallowed times,
For every sentence, clause, and word,
That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,

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Sun that givest all things
Shine on everything on earth
If that's too much to
Shine at least on this our land

Lord Rama
My honour is in Your hands
You are the protector of the poor;
I surrender myself at Your Feet

My corn is green with red tassels,
I am praying to the lightning to ripen my corn,
I am praying to the thunder which carries the lightning
Corn is sweet where lightning has fallen

RE est orare:
We, black-visaged sons of toil,
From the coal-mine and the anvil And the delving of the soil,-- From the loom, the wharf, the warehouse,
And the ever-whirling mill,

Then a priestess said, "Speak to us of Prayer
" And he answered, saying:
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance
For what is pray...

HE IV Though Zeus plan all things right, Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace; Nathless in every place Brightly it gleameth, e'en in darkest night, Fraught with black fate to man's speech-gifted race
HE IV Steadfast, ne'er thrown in f...