<h2 id="id00463" style="margin-top: 4em">A PAGAN PRAYER</h2>
<p id="id00464">Lord of all Life! When my hours are done,<br/>
Take me and make me anew—<br/>
And give me back to the earth and the sun,<br/>
And the sky's unlimited blue.<br/></p>
<p id="id00465">The nightingale sings in an ecstasy<br/>
To the moonlit April night,<br/>
But my songs are locked in the heart of me,<br/>
Like birds that may not take flight.<br/></p>
<p id="id00466">The little purple-winged swallows that fly<br/>
Through waves of the upper air,<br/>
Have a sweeter liberty, Lord, than I,<br/>
Who may not follow them there.<br/></p>
<p id="id00467">Pavilions of sunshine—tents of the rain,<br/>
For these, the wild and the free;<br/>
And for us walled garden and window-pane,<br/>
And bolt and staple and key.<br/></p>
<p id="id00468">We are worn with wisdom that never brings<br/>
Peace to the world and its woe—<br/>
For a space with Thy joyous lesser things,<br/>
Teach me the faith I would know.<br/></p>
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