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ANOTHER DAY, by                    
First Line: Lord, as the evening's curtains lower
Last Line: And this the boon I ask.
Subject(s): God; Life; Prayer


Lord, as the evening's curtains lower
And night comes stealing on,
I offer one petition more
Before my day is done.

It is not for belated fame,
Nor yet for honor dear;
It is not to escape the shame
Of failure or of fear.

While many stress and struggle shirk,
And shun the stormy seas,
I ask Thee still for earthly work
And not for heavenly ease.

Tho saddened oft by scenes of strife,
By violence and crime,
I am not weary of my life,
Nor out of sorts with time;

But would return, a child again,
In the millennial age;
Would grow to manhood with its men
And in its work engage;

Would see its sights, would breathe its breaths,
Would hear its battle cries;
Would do its deeds, defy its deaths,
And share its agonies;

Would see the heaven of heavens laid bare,
The earth's foundations rocked;
And powers of light and darkness where
In mortal conflict locked;

Till Wrong is worsted and undone,
And Right receives the crown,
And in the West the sanguine sun
In triumph has gone down.

To dwell in my eternal home
Desire doth not abate,
But to behold Thy kingdom come
I bid my longing wait.

Not mine to alter Thy decrees,
Nor to assign my task;
But this the day my vision sees,
And this the boon I ask.





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