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THE POET'S PRAYER, by                    
First Line: Thy semblant beauty creeping through the world
Last Line: And she who beauty is, I'll not forget!
Subject(s): Faith; Prayer; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology


THY semblant beauty creeping through the world,
I will to sing! Thou, Beauty, who art law,
Religion, life, to me! — I would withdraw
Thee out the gaudy shroud in which thou'rt furled,
And let thy grain above the tide be hurled
To deck the hills as that the ancients saw.
O, fashion me thy viol of grace and awe!
Despair not of the timber rough and knurled!

Evangelist of this lone faith I'd be —
To hold the slab and with us see men sign.
Prophetic words or pictures more divine
May not be theirs to give; but those who see
And live and house thy grace, hold with us yet,
And she who beauty is, I'll not forget!





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