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Poems

GRATITUDE

From the April 1947 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Father, help us to show
The gratitude we feel
In countless ways,

To know that praise
From lips alone
Is not enough.

Help us to learn,
And so to teach,
And so to give
Of our hearts' great abundance

Teach us to live
As they before us lived,
Devoid of self.

Help us to wear the thorns
he wore,
To bear the cross she bore,
And, even if through tears,
to smile
Along the rugged way
To reach the crown.

Help us
To share
That gratitude which is
Unceasing prayer.

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