Prayer

LET every moment of my life

Be crowned with diamond thoughts of Thee;

Chisel from the hard granite rocks

A statue of divinity.

Colour my dawn and desert-noon

With wonder-
res of thy delight

And tune my heavens dusky mood

To symphonies of thy starry night.

Dispel all blemishes by thy touch

And make my Spirits kingdom shine

In glory like a deathless sky,

A cup
lled with thy heavenly wine.

In the in
nite silence let me merge

Untraversed by the faintest sound,

No wrinkle of rough time dis
gure

The Eternals timeless calm around.

Draw from the slumbering depths of my sea

Pearled expressions of the soul,

Thy unmanifest creative Word,

The splendours of thy golden scroll.

From the undiscovered shoreless Vast

Slowly thy mysteries unfold:

My mortal vision lift to sight,

Each atom with thy Beauty mould.

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