Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOUR OF PRAYER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: Child, amidst the flowers at play
Last Line: Lift the heart and bend the knee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Prayer


CHILD, amidst the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;
Mother, with thine earnest eye,
Ever following silently;
Father, by the breeze of eve
Called thy harvest-work to leave --
Pray: ere yet the dark hours be,
Lift the heart and bend the knee!

Traveller, in the stranger's land,
Far from thine own household band;
Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone;
Captive, in whose narrow cell
Sunshine hath not leave to dwell;
Sailor on the darkening sea --
Lift the heart and bend the knee!

Warrior, that from battle won
Breathest now at set of sun;
Woman, o'er the lowly slain
Weeping on his burial-plain;
Ye that triumph, ye that sigh,
Kindred by one holy tie,
Heaven's first star alike ye see --
Lift the heart and bend the knee!





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