Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1

XII - From the Same

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XII - From the Same

TO THE SUPREME BEING.

The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed

If Thou the spirit give by which I pray:

My unassisted heart is barren clay,

Which of its native self can nothing feed:

Of good and pious works thou art the seed,

Which quickens only where thou say'st it may:

Unless thou shew to us thine own true way

No man can find it: Father! thou must lead.

Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind

By which such virtue may in me be bred

That in thy holy footsteps I may tread;

The fetters of my tongue do Thou unbind,

That I may have the power to sing of thee,

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