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The Gipsy's Prayer.

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Our altar is the dewy sod     Our temple yon blue throne of God:     No priestly rite our souls to bind     We bow before the Almighty Mind.     Oh, Thou whose realm is wide as air     Thou wilt not spurn the Gipsies' prayer:     Though banned and barred by all beside,     Be Thou the Outcast's guard and guide.     Poor fragments of a Nation wrecked     Its story whelmed in Time's neglect     We drift unheeded on the wave,     If God refuse the lost to save.     Yet though we name no Fatherland     And though we clasp no kindred hand     Though houseless, homeless wanderers we     Oh give us Hope, and Heaven with Thee!

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