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Morning Prayer

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Let me to-day do something that shall take          A little sadness from the world's vast store,     And may I be so favoured as to make          Of joy's too scanty sum a little more     Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed          Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;     Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,          Or sin by silence when I should defend.     However meagre be my worldly wealth,          Let me give something that shall aid my. kind -     A word of courage, or a thought of health,          Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.     Let me to-night look back across the span          'Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say -     Because of some good act to beast or man -          "The world is better that I lived to-day."

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"Let me to-day do something that shall take..."

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