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A PRAYER OF ESTHER by EMILY WILSON SANDER

First Line: O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH, REMEMBER THE WOMAN!
Last Line: FASHION A PATTERN, A PATTERN FOR MAN!
Subject(s): PRAYER;

O Thou Great Jehovah, remember the woman!
Wrought like the sea beneath moons and tides;
Stirred by all beauty, by holiness shriven;
Restless, unsatisfied ever with man:
Seeing him God, yet knowing him human;
Man of her making, hers from Thy hand.
Yet greater than she in power and cunning,
Like a falcon set free he mounts from her hold,
And seeks a man's world that she never planned,
Who gathers her dead where lilies lie furled.
O Lord God of Israel, I pray not for woman,
Fashion a pattern, a pattern for man!



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