Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO PRAYERS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN


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First Line: Only for these I pray
Last Line: Let me have power to do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Theology


Only for these I pray,
Pray with assurance strong:
Light to discover the way,
Power to follow it long.

Let me have light to see,
Light to be sure and know;
When the road is clear to me
Willingly I go.

Let me have power to do,
Power of the brain and nerve,
Though the task is heavy and new
Willingly I will serve.

My prayers are lesser than three,
Nothing I pray but two
Let me have light to see,
Let me have power to do.





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