| Show unanswered PRAYERS lite like some ome schoolmaster kind in being stern who hearst hears the he children crying oer their slates dates and calling help me master yet helps not since in his silence and refuse refusal I 1 lies their self development so god abides unheeding many prayers lie he Is not deaf to any cry sent up from earnest hearts he hears and strengthens when he must enlist deny he sees us weeping over lifes hard sums but should he dry our tears and give the key what would it profit us when school were done and not one lesson maste mastered redl what a world were this it if all our prayers were granted I 1 not in tamed famed Pan doras box were such vast ills As lie in human hearts should our desires voiced one by one in prayer ascend to god and come back as events shaped to our wish what ebaos chaos would result in my fierce youth I 1 sighed out breath enough to move mote a fleet voicing wild prayers to heaven tor for fancied boons which were denied and that denial bends my knee to prayers of gratitude each day of my life yet from rom those prayers I 1 rose alway re girded tor for the strife and conscious of new strength pray on sad heart that which thou plead plea dest cst tor for an may ely not be given but in the lofty altitude where souls who supplicate gods grace are lifted there thou find help to boar bear thy future lot which Is not elsewhere found ella wheeler wilcox in the cosmopolitan |
