A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR.
let me live while 1 can see The beauty in the blossoming tree, The message in the wayside flower, And love it for its one short hour; While morning song of lark and jay, ('an r. atter all my doubts away, And lift iny poor heart from the sod, And tell them 1 am born of God; While 1 can feel I’m linked with all The burdened ones who halt and fall. While 1 ran feel my share of blame In every cheek that's dyed with shann While I can feel life’s burdens sweep Across my heart and drive out sleep; While 1 can suffer, hunger, strive, lxml. let me live For I'm aiiv°. Hut if the time should come when 1 Forget to lift my eyes on high. Forget to seek, for love divine, or seek it but for ine and mine; When my dim eyes shall fail to trace Thy image in each human face. When lulled o> comfort, ease and pride 1 find my soul is satisfied To build its house of wood and hay, lotting the old world go Its way; Content to preen before a glass Where wounded ones liarefooted pas . Fusing my conscience if i must By throwing hungry dogs a crust, Then, Lord, Th> crowning mercy shul And let me die —For 1 am dead. - Nellie McClain
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White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 332, 19 February 1923, Page 6
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230A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR. White Ribbon, Volume 28, Issue 332, 19 February 1923, Page 6
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