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A Child's Prayer
ERE on my bed my limbs I lay
God grant me grace my prayers to say !
O God, preserve my mother dear
In health and strength for many a year.
And O preserve my father too,
And may I pay him reverence due ;
And may I my best thoughts employ
To be my parents' hope and joy 1
And O preserve my brothers both
From evil doings and from sloth,
And may we always love each other,
Our friends, our father, and our mother !
And still, O Lord, to me impart
An innocent and grateful heart,
That after my last sleep I may
Awake to Thy eternal day.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Through the World We Two Will Go
nnHY hand in mine, thy hand in mine,
1 And through the world we two will go,
Our faces set to every foe,
With love before us as a sign,
Thy hand in mine, thy hand in mine.
My heart in thine, my heart in thine,
Through life, through happy death the same.
We two will kneel before the shrine
And keep alight the sacred flame.
My heart in thine, my heart in thine.
Mary Coleridge
She is Not Fair to Outward View
SEE is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be ;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me ;
O, then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
But now her looks are coy and cold.
To mine they ne'er reply.
And yet I cease not to behold
The love-light in her eye :
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
Hartley Cokridge