<h2><SPAN name="page64"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>A PRAYER</h2>
<p class="poetry">Master of sweet and loving lore,<br/>
Give us the open mind<br/>
To know religion means no more,<br/>
No less, than being kind.</p>
<p class="poetry">Give us the comprehensive sight<br/>
That sees another’s need;<br/>
And let our aim to set things right<br/>
Prove God inspired our creed.</p>
<p class="poetry">Give us the soul to know our kin<br/>
That dwell in flock and herd,<br/>
The voice to fight man’s shameful sin<br/>
Against the beast and bird.</p>
<p class="poetry">Give us a heart with love so fraught<br/>
For all created things,<br/>
That even our unspoken thought<br/>
Bears healing on its wings.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page65"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
65</span>Give us religion that will cope<br/>
With life’s colossal woes,<br/>
And turn a radiant face of hope<br/>
On troops of pigmy foes.</p>
<p class="poetry">Give us the mastery of our fate<br/>
In thoughts so warm and white,<br/>
They stamp upon the brows of hate<br/>
Love’s glorious seal of light.</p>
<p class="poetry">Give us the strong, courageous faith<br/>
That makes of pain a friend,<br/>
And calls the secret word of death<br/>
‘Beginning,’ and not
‘end.’</p>
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