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BUT WHEN YE PRAY, by                    
First Line: But when ye pray, say our - not mine or thine
Last Line: When all can pray, not mine, or thine, but our.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Religion; Theology


But when ye pray, say our—not mine or thine;
Our debts, our debtors, and our daily bread!
Before the thronged cathedral's gracious shrine,
Or in thy closet's solitude instead,
Whoe'er thou art, where'er thou liftest prayer,
However humble or how great thou be,
Say our, thy brother man including there,
And more and more it may be thou shalt see
Upon life's loom how thread to thread is bound;
None for himself, but man and fellow-man,
Or near or far, meet on one common ground,
Sons of one Father since the world began.
So shall God's Kingdom come in might and power
When all can pray, not mine, or thine, but our.





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