<h2><SPAN name="poem13"></SPAN>MORNING PRAYER</h2>
<p class="poetry">Let me to-day do something that shall take<br/>
A little sadness from the world’s vast
store,<br/>
And may I be so favoured as to make<br/>
Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more<br/>
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed<br/>
Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;<br/>
Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,<br/>
Or sin by silence when I should defend.<br/>
However meagre be my worldly wealth,<br/>
Let me give something that shall aid my
kind—<br/>
A word of courage, or a thought of health,<br/>
Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.<br/>
Let me to-night look back across the span<br/>
’Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience
say—<br/>
Because of some good act to beast or man—<br/>
“The world is better that I lived
to-day.”</p>
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