PRAYER by Richard Chenevix Trench
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PRAYER
by Richard Chenevix Trench

Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in Thy presence will avail to make!
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!
What parched grounds refresh as with a shower!
We kneel, and all around us seems to lower;
We rise, and all, the distant and the near,
Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear;
We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power!
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,
Or others�that we are not always strong�
That we are sometimes overborne with care�
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
Anxious or troubled�when with us is prayer,
And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

Note: Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1807, Richard C. Trench was educated at Cambridge in England. On July 5,1835 he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England. He later became Bishop of Dublin. He died in 1886.

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