Cantique : is the soul’s Prayer sincere desire

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

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

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

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

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

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

is the soul’s Prayer sincere desire