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PRAYER by EDNA WOODS CAMPBELL

First Line: LIFE SERVES ME WELL, O GOD; LET ME KNOW IT MORE
Last Line: THAT THEY MAY COMFORT ME WHEN LIFE, AT LAST, BRINGS TEARS.
Subject(s): PRAYER;
Life serves me well, O God; let me know it more.
Let me feel my happiness in my heart's red core.
Good years have I lived with love in gentleness and calm,
A fragrance permeates my days and soothes me as a balm
Soft on my brow; so over and over I fain
Must remind myself that love also means pain.
Let me realize how kind to me these years,
That they may comfort me when life, at last, brings tears.



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