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THE AMERICAN PATRIOT'S PRAYER, by                    
First Line: "parent of all, omnipotent"
Last Line: "single to serve the erron'ous throng, / spite of themselves, be mine"
Subject(s): U.s. - Declaration Of Independence


PARENT of all, omnipotent
In heav'n, and earth below,
Thro' all creation's bounds unspent,
Whose streams of goodness flow.

Teach me to know from whence I rose,
And unto what design'd;
No private aims let me propose,
Since link'd with human kind.

But chief to hear my country's voice,
May all my thoughts incline,
'T is reason's law, 't is virtue's choice,
'T is nature's call and thine.

Me from fair freedom's sacred cause
Let nothing e'er divide;
Grandeur, nor gold, nor vain applause,
Nor friendship false misguide.

Let me not faction's partial hate
Pursue to this land's woe;
Nor grasp the thunder of the state
To wound a private foe.

If, for the right, to wish the wrong
My country shall combine,
Single to serve th' erron'ous throng,
Spite of themselves, be mine.





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