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THE UNFINISHED PRAYER, by                    
First Line: Now I lay' - repeat it darling
Last Line: "thus might trust my heavenly father, / he who hears my feeblest cry"
Subject(s): Children;prayer; Childhood


"Now I lay," -- repeat it, darling.
"Lay me," lisped the tiny lips
Of my daughter, kneeling, bending
O'er her folded finger-tips.
"Down to sleep" -- "To sleep," she murmured,
And the curly head bent low;
"I pray the Lord", I gently added;
"You can say it, all, I know."
"Pray the Lord" -- the sound came faintly,
Fainter still -- "My soul to keep;"
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened
When I clasped her to my breast,
And the dear voice softly whispered,
"Mamma, God knows all the rest."
Oh, the trusting, sweet confiding
Of the child heart! Would that I
Thus might trust my Heavenly Father,
He who hears my feeblest cry.




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