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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 32.

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A Prayer

By Christina G. Rossetti

LORD, grant us eyes to see, and ears to hear, And souls to love, and minds to understand, And steadfast faces toward the holy land, And confidence of hope, and filial fear, And citizenship where thy saints appear Before thee heart in heart and hand in hand, And alleluias where their chanting band As waters and as thunders fill the sphere. Lord, grant us what thou wilt, and what thou wilt Deny, and fold us in thy peaceful fold; Not as the world gives, give to us thine own: Inbuild us where Jerusalem is built With walls of jasper and with streets of gold, And thou, thyself, Lord Christ, for corner stone.
— Christina G. Rossetti.