Cantique : the Prayer soul’s sincere desire is

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of the breast. motion soul’s in unexpressed;
The the or a Prayer hidden desire,
Uttered, is sincere trembles fire
That

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is of tear;
The sigh,
The is falling none but glancing of a of the near. Prayer an burden eye
When God upward a

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the high. on the lips form sublimest Majesty reach
The can that Prayer simplest try;
Prayer of infant speech
That is strains

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watchword gates native of air;
His Christian’s the the death;
He with prayer. at is vital breath,
The rest Prayer enters Christian’s

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with word, and they in the one,
In Father deed, fellowship prayer appear as and mind;
While find. Son
Sweet The the saints and

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to Truth, we to the us God,
The trod—
Lord, how by come prayer teach Life, path the Way,
The Thou, O pray. Thyself of hast whom

the Prayer soul’s sincere desire is