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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING PRAYER, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang her little bedtime air
Last Line: Of heaven's angels, listening.
Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism
First Line: She sang her little bedtime air
Last Line: Of heaven's angels, listening.
Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism
She sang her little bedtime air
And drowsy-wise she spoke her prayer.
And as she spoke I saw the room
Open and stretch and glow and bloom;
And in her eyes I saw a ring
Of heaven's angels, listening.
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