OCR Text |
Show A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER. Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say; O God! preserve my mother dear In strength and health for many a year; And, O: preserve my father, too. And may I pay him revernce due: And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy: 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 may-Awake to thy eternal day! Amen. Samuel Taylor Coieridge. |