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A POEM TO BE SAID ON HEARING THE BIRDS SING by ANONYMOUS

First Line: A FRAGRANT PRAYER UPON THE AIR
Last Line: WAS SLAIN FOR THEE
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;PRAYER;

A FRAGRANT prayer upon the air
My child taught me,
Awaken there, the morn is fair,
The birds sing free;
Now dawns the day, awake and pray,
And bend the knee;
The Lamb who lay beneath the clay
Was slain for thee.



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