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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

A PRAYER, by                    
First Line: Please grant us wisdom, lord, to understand
Last Line: That those who cause all wars are also thine!
Subject(s): Prayer; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


Please grant us wisdom, Lord, to understand
Thy ways, mysterious and awe-compelling,
For in our mortal minds are always welling
The doubts which make it hard for us to brand
Temptation's lure. We know our lives are planned
For us, but we have no way of foretelling
Just which of us shall have for his last dwelling
Hell's Acre or the Hollow of Thy Hand.
One final boon we beg, the greatest one:
Recalling those in sky, on land, and sea,
Whose fates we dare consider not condign,
When humbly we should say, "Thy Will Be Done",
Make us to realize, though hard it be,
That those who cause all wars are also Thine!





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