Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAYER OF ANY HUSBAND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS


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First Line: Lord, may there be no moment in her life
Last Line: May not the two of us be parted long!
Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Prayer; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


Lord, may there be no moment in her life
When she regrets that she became my wife,
And keep her dear eyes just a trifle blind
To my defects, and to my failings kind!

Help me to do the utmost that I can
To prove myself her measure of a man,
But, if I often fail as mortals may,
Grant that she never sees my feet of clay!

And let her make allowance -- now and then --
That we are only grown-up boys, we men,
So, loving all our children, she will see,
Sometimes, a remnant of the child in me!

Since years must bring to all their load of care,
Let us together every burden bear,
And when Death beckons one its path along,
May not the two of us be parted long!





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