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Prayers of Daniel

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 8, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 19.

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Prayers of Daniel.

By R. Wilton

IMPERIAL Persia bowed to his wise sway, A hundred provinces his daily care; A queenly city with its gardens fair Smiled round him, but his heart was far away. Forsaking pomp and power "three times a day" For chamber lone, he seeks his solace there; Thru windows opening westward floats his prayer, Toward the dear distance where Jerusalem lay. So let me morn, noon, evening, steal aside, And, shutting my heart's door to earth's vain pleasure, And manifold solicitudes, find leisure The windows of my soul to open wide Toward that blest city and that heavenly treasure, Which past these visible horizons hide. —R. Wilton.