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First Line: We offer here no craven prayer
Last Line: To doubt, to trust, to dare!
Subject(s): God; Worship


We offer here no craven prayer
To tribal God or king,
To save us by some miracle
From our own blundering;
But Thou, O God, the God of law,
Who faithful art and kind,
Send Thou Thy light to lift from us
This darkness of the mind.

Forbid that we should make of Thee,
A Lord of petty state,
And boasting to Thy altar come
With offerings of hate;
We charge not to Thy holy will
The wars that waste earth's good,
We own our sin, O God, we own
Our want of brotherhood.

Nor with the faith of slaves we bow,
To what dark fate hath willed;
We are Thy sons, O God of Love,
And we our future build.
Then save us Lord, Thou God of Truth,
From lies that make us thrall,
From vain imaginings and fears,
O save us, Lord of all.

And whip our laggard wills, O God;
Sting us to discontent,
Until in simple trust we meet
Thy great requirement.
O God, Who breathest through this clay,
Who speakest through our prayer,
Give us the mind, the heart, the will,
To doubt, to trust, to dare!





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