As our faith burns brighter, longer, When a friend's true faith is near, So our uttered prayer grows stronger When an added prayer we hear. Links of grateful adoration, Links of promise, true and plain, Links of eager supplication, -- Lengthen out the glorious chain! "Least that's said, the soonest mended," -- So the fretful worldlings call; "Iron chains, too far extended, Break beneath their weight, and fall." Add the links, and do not heed them! With each link the weight is less. Winged are all true prayers, and speed them Upward to God's tenderness. Lengthen out the long petition! -- Words that tremble, words that shrink, Praises, sorrows, joy, contrition; -- For a chain needs every link. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRIENDSHIP by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EPITAPH (ON A COMMONPLACE PERSON WHO DIED IN BED) by AMY LEVY THE RUBAIYAT, 1889 EDITION: 19 by OMAR KHAYYAM OUR LADY'S LULLABY by RICHARD ROWLANDS PLUTARCH by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 58. AL-MUHSI by EDWIN ARNOLD |