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Poems

[Written for the Journal]

OUR PETITION

From the September 1923 issue of The Christian Science Journal


We ask not, God, for greatness, to be thrust
Upon us as we walk Thy way:
Not for acclaim, nor yet for heads bowed down;
No, not for these we watch and pray.

But this we ask of Thee with midnight tears,
With prayerful hearts and longing strife,
That we may walk with Thee in gentleness,
And show the tenderness of Life.

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