[ { "title": "A Prayer", "author": "Amy Levy", "lines": [ "Since that I may not have", "Love on this side the grave,", "Let me imagine Love.", "Since not mine is the bliss", "Of 'claspt hands and lips that kiss,'", "Let me in dreams it prove.", "What tho' as the years roll", "No soul shall melt to my soul,", "Let me conceive such thing;", "Tho' never shall entwine", "Loving arms around mine", "Let dreams caresses bring.", "To live--it is my doom--", "Lonely as in a tomb,", "This cross on me was laid;", "My God, I know not why;", "Here in the dark I lie,", "Lonely, yet not afraid.", "It has seemed good to Thee", "Still to withhold the key", "Which opes the way to men;", "I am shut in alone,", "I make not any moan,", "Thy ways are past my ken.", "Yet grant me this, to find", "The sweetness in my mind", "Which I must still forego;", "Great God which art above,", "Grant me to image Love,--", "The bliss without the woe." ], "linecount": "30" }, { "title": "A Prayer", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,", "Weak, wretched sinner though I be),", "My trembling soul would fain be Thine;", "My feeble faith still clings to Thee.", "", "Not only for the Past I grieve,", "The Future fills me with dismay;", "Unless Thou hasten to relieve,", "Thy suppliant is a castaway.", "", "I cannot say my faith is strong,", "I dare not hope my love is great;", "But strength and love to Thee belong;", "Oh, do not leave me desolate!", "", "I know I owe my all to Thee;", "Oh, TAKE the heart I cannot give!", "Do Thou my strength--my Saviour be,", "And MAKE me to Thy glory live." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "The Doubter's Prayer", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "Eternal Power, of earth and air!", "Unseen, yet seen in all around,", "Remote, but dwelling everywhere,", "Though silent, heard in every sound.", "If e'er thine ear in mercy bent,", "When wretched mortals cried to Thee,", "And if, indeed, Thy Son was sent,", "To save lost sinners such as me:", "", "Then hear me now, while, kneeling here,", "I lift to thee my heart and eye,", "And all my soul ascends in prayer,", "Oh, give me -­ give me Faith! I cry.", "", "Without some glimmering in my heart,", "I could not raise this fervent prayer;", "But, oh! a stronger light impart,", "And in Thy mercy fix it there.", "", "While Faith is with me, I am blest;", "It turns my darkest night to day;", "But while I clasp it to my breast,", "I often feel it slide away.", "", "Then, cold and dark, my spirit sinks,", "To see my light of life depart;", "And every fiend of Hell, methinks,", "Enjoys the anguish of my heart.", "", "What shall I do, if all my love,", "My hopes, my toil, are cast away,", "And if there be no God above,", "To hear and bless me when I pray?", "", "If this be vain delusion all,", "If death be an eternal sleep,", "And none can hear my secret call,", "Or see the silent tears I weep!", "", "Oh, help me, God! For thou alone", "Canst my distracted soul relieve;", "Forsake it not: it is thine own,", "Though weak, yet longing to believe.", "", "Oh, drive these cruel doubts away;", "And make me know, that Thou art God!", "A faith, that shines by night and day,", "Will lighten every earthly load.", "", "If I believe that Jesus died,", "And, waking, rose to reign above;", "Then surely Sorrow, Sin, and Pride,", "Must yield to Peace, and Hope, and Love.", "", "And all the blessed words He said", "Will strength and holy joy impart:", "A shield of safety o'er my head,", "A spring of comfort in my heart." ], "linecount": "48" }, { "title": "My period had come for Prayer --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "My period had come for Prayer --", "No other Art -- would do --", "My Tactics missed a rudiment --", "Creator -- Was it you?", "", "God grows above -- so those who pray", "Horizons -- must ascend --", "And so I stepped upon the North", "To see this Curious Friend --", "", "His House was not -- no sign had He --", "By Chimney -- nor by Door", "Could I infer his Residence --", "Vast Prairies of Air", "", "Unbroken by a Settler --", "Were all that I could see --", "Infinitude -- Had'st Thou no Face", "That I might look on Thee?", "", "The Silence condescended --", "Creation stopped -- for Me --", "But awed beyond my errand --", "I worshipped -- did not \"pray\" --" ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "Prayer is the little implement", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Prayer is the little implement", "Through which Men reach", "Where Presence -- is denied them.", "They fling their Speech", "", "By means of it -- in God's Ear --", "If then He hear --", "This sums the Apparatus", "Comprised in Prayer --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "The Bibliomaniac's Prayer", "author": "Eugene Field", "lines": [ "Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way", "That I may truths eternal seek;", "I need protecting care to-day,--", "My purse is light, my flesh is weak.", "So banish from my erring heart", "All baleful appetites and hints", "Of Satan's fascinating art,", "Of first editions, and of prints.", "Direct me in some godly walk", "Which leads away from bookish strife,", "That I with pious deed and talk", "May extra-illustrate my life.", "But if, O Lord, it pleaseth Thee", "To keep me in temptation's way,", "I humbly ask that I may be", "Most notably beset to-day;", "Let my temptation be a book,", "Which I shall purchase, hold, and keep,", "Whereon when other men shall look,", "They 'll wail to know I got it cheap.", "Oh, let it such a volume be", "As in rare copperplates abounds,", "Large paper, clean, and fair to see,", "Uncut, unique, unknown to Lowndes." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Prayer", "author": "George Herbert", "lines": [ "Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,", "Gods breath in man returning to his birth,", "The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgramage,", "The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;", "Engine against th'Almightie, sinners towre,", "Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,", "The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,", "A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;", "Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,", "Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,", "Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,", "The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,", "Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,", "The land of spices; something understood." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "My prayers must meet a brazen heaven", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "My prayers must meet a brazen heaven", "And fail and scatter all away.", "Unclean and seeming unforgiven", "My prayers I scarcely call to pray.", "I cannot buoy my heart above;", "Above I cannot entrance win.", "I reckon precedents of love,", "But feel the long success of sin.", "", "My heaven is brass and iron my earth:", "Yea, iron is mingled with my clay,", "So harden'd is it in this dearth", "Which praying fails to do away.", "Nor tears, nor tears this clay uncouth", "Could mould, if any tears there were.", "A warfare of my lips in truth,", "Battling with God, is now my prayer." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Prayer", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "lines": [ "Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf", "Than that I may not disappoint myself,", "That in my action I may soar as high", "As I can now discern with this clear eye.", "And next in value, which thy kindness lends,", "That I may greatly disappoint my friends,", "Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,", "They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me.", "", "That my weak hand may equal my firm faith", "And my life practice what my tongue saith", "That my low conduct may not show", "Nor my relenting lines", "That I thy purpose did not know", "Or overrated thy designs." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Ike Walton's Prayer", "author": "James Whitcomb Riley", "lines": [ "I crave, dear Lord,", "No boundless hoard", "Of gold and gear,", "Nor jewels fine,", "Nor lands, nor kine,", "Nor treasure-heaps of anything.-", "Let but a little hut be mine", "Where at the hearthstore I may hear", "The cricket sing,", "And have the shine", "Of one glad woman's eyes to make,", "For my poor sake,", "Our simple home a place divine;-", "Just the wee cot-the cricket's chirr-", "Love, and the smiling face of her.", "", "I pray not for", "Great riches, nor", "For vast estates, and castle-halls,-", "Give me to hear the bare footfalls", "Of children o’er", "An oaken floor,", "New-risen with sunshine, or bespread", "With but the tiny coverlet", "And pillow for the baby’s head;", "And pray Thou, may", "The door stand open and the day", "Send ever in a gentle breeze,", "With fragrance from the locust-trees,", "And drowsy moan of doves, and blur", "Of robin-chirps, and drove of bees,", "With afterhushes of the stir", "Of intermingling sounds, and then", "The good-wife and the smile of her", "Filling the silences again-", "The cricket’s call,", "And the wee cot,", "Dear Lord of all,", "Deny me not!", "", "I pray not that", "Men tremble at", "My power of place", "And lordly sway, -", "I only pray for simple grace", "To look my neighbor in the face", "Full honestly from day to day-", "Yield me this horny palm to hold,", "And I’ll not pray", "For gold;-", "The tanned face, garlanded with mirth,", "It hath the kingliest smile on earth-", "The swart brow, diamonded with sweat,", "Hath never need of coronet.", "And so I reach,", "Dear Lord, to Thee,", "And do beseech", "Thou givest me", "The wee cot, and the cricket’s chirr,", "Love, and the glad sweet face of her." ], "linecount": "58" }, { "title": "Prayer", "author": "Richard Crashaw", "lines": [ "LO here a little volume, but great Book", "A nest of new-born sweets;", "Whose native fires disdaining", "To ly thus folded, and complaining", "Of these ignoble sheets,", "Affect more comly bands", "(Fair one) from the kind hands", "And confidently look", "To find the rest", "Of a rich binding in your Brest.", "It is, in one choise handfull, heavenn; and all", "Heavn’s Royall host; incamp’t thus small", "To prove that true schooles use to tell,", "Ten thousand Angels in one point can dwell.", "It is love’s great artillery", "Which here contracts itself, and comes to ly", "Close couch’t in their white bosom: and from thence", "As from a snowy fortresse of defence,", "Against their ghostly foes to take their part,", "And fortify the hold of their chast heart.", "It is an armory of light", "Let constant use but keep it bright,", "You’l find it yeilds", "To holy hands and humble hearts", "More swords and sheilds", "Then sin hath snares, or Hell hath darts.", "Only be sure", "The hands be pure", "That hold these weapons; and the eyes", "Those of turtles, chast and true;", "Wakefull and wise;", "Here is a freind shall fight for you,", "Hold but this book before their heart;", "Let prayer alone to play his part,", "But ф the heart", "That studyes this high Art", "Must be a sure house-keeper", "And yet no sleeper.", "Dear soul, be strong.", "Mercy will come e’re long", "And bring his bosom fraught with blessings,", "Flowers of never fading graces", "To make immortall dressings", "For worthy soules, whose wise embraces", "Store up themselves for Him, who is alone", "The Spouse of Virgins and the Virgin’s son.", "But if the noble Bridegroom, when he come", "Shall find the loytering Heart from home;", "Leaving her chast aboad", "To gadde abroad", "Among the gay mates of the god of flyes;", "To take her pleasure and to play", "And keep the devill’s holyday;", "To dance th’sunshine of some smiling", "But beguiling", "Spheares of sweet and sugred Lyes,", "Some slippery Pair", "Of false, perhaps as fair,", "Flattering but forswearing eyes;", "Doubtlesse some other heart", "Will gett the start", "Mean while, and stepping in before", "Will take possession of that sacred store", "Of hidden sweets and holy ioyes.", "Words which are not heard with Eares", "(Those tumultuous shops of noise)", "Effectuall wispers, whose still voice", "The soul it selfe more feeles then heares;", "Amorous languishments; luminous trances;", "Sights which are not seen with eyes;", "Spirituall and soul-peircing glances", "Whose pure and subtil lightning flyes", "Home to the heart, and setts the house on fire", "And melts it down in sweet desire", "Yet does not stay", "To ask the windows leave to passe that way;", "Delicious Deaths; soft exalations", "Of soul; dear and divine annihilations;", "A thousand unknown rites", "Of ioyes and rarefy’d delights;", "A hundred thousand goods, glories, and graces,", "And many a mystick thing", "Which the divine embraces", "Of the deare spouse of spirits with them will bring", "For which it is no shame", "That dull mortality must not know a name.", "Of all this store", "Of blessings and ten thousand more", "(If when he come", "He find the Heart from home)", "Doubtlesse he will unload", "Himself some other where,", "And poure abroad", "His pretious sweets", "On the fair soul whom first he meets.", "O fair, ф fortunate! O riche, ф dear!", "O happy and thrice happy she", "Selected dove", "Who ere she be,", "Whose early love", "With winged vowes", "Makes hast to meet her morning spouse", "And close with his immortall kisses.", "Happy indeed, who never misses", "To improve that pretious hour,", "And every day", "Seize her sweet prey", "All fresh and fragrant as he rises", "Dropping with a baulmy Showr", "A delicious dew of spices;", "O let the blissfull heart hold fast", "Her heavnly arm-full, she shall tast", "At once ten thousand paradises;", "She shall have power", "To rifle and deflour", "The rich and roseall spring of those rare sweets", "Which with a swelling bosome there she meets", "Boundles and infinite", "Bottomles treasures", "Of pure inebriating pleasures", "Happy proof! she shal discover", "What ioy, what blisse,", "How many Heav’ns at once it is", "To have her God become her Lover." ], "linecount": "124" }, { "title": "The Prayer of Nature", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Father of Light! great God of Heaven!", " Hear'st thou the accents of despair?", "Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?", " Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?", "", "Father of Light, on thee I call!", " Thou see'st my soul is dark within;", "Thou, who canst mark the sparrow's fall,", " Avert from me the death of sin.", "", "No shrine I seek, to sects unknown;", " Oh, point to me the path of truth!", "Thy dread Omnipotence I own;", " Spare, yet amend, the faults of youth.", "", "Let bigots rear a gloomy fane,", " Let Superstition hail the pile,", "Let priests, to spread their sable reign,", " With tales of mystic rites beguile.", "", "Shall man confine his Maker's sway", " To Gothic domes of mouldering stone?", "Thy temple is the face of day;", " Earth, Ocean, Heaven thy boundless throne.", "", "Shall man condemn his race to Hell,", " Unless they bend in pompous form?", "Tell us that all, for one who fell,", " Must perish in the mingling storm?", "", "Shall each pretend to reach the skies,", " Yet doom his brother to expire,", "Whose soul a different hope supplies,", " Or doctrines less severe inspire?", "", "Shall these, by creeds they can't expound,", " Prepare a fancied bliss or woe?", "Shall reptiles, groveling on the ground,", " Their great Creator's purpose know?", "", "Shall those, who live for self alone,", " Whose years float on in daily crime--", "Shall they, by Faith, for guilt atone,", " And live beyond the bounds of Time?", "", "Father! no prophet's laws I seek,--", " _Thy_ laws in Nature's works appear;--", "I own myself corrupt and weak,", " Yet will I _pray_, for thou wilt hear!", "", "Thou, who canst guide the wandering star,", " Through trackless realms of aether's space;", "Who calm'st the elemental war,", " Whose hand from pole to pole I trace:", "", "Thou, who in wisdom plac'd me here,", " Who, when thou wilt, canst take me hence,", "Ah! whilst I tread this earthly sphere,", " Extend to me thy wide defence.", "", "To Thee, my God, to thee I call!", " Whatever weal or woe betide,", "By thy command I rise or fall,", " In thy protection I confide.", "", "If, when this dust to dust's restor'd,", " My soul shall float on airy wing,", "How shall thy glorious Name ador'd", " Inspire her feeble voice to sing!", "", "But, if this fleeting spirit share", " With clay the Grave's eternal bed,", "While Life yet throbs I raise my prayer,", " Though doom'd no more to quit the dead.", "", "To Thee I breathe my humble strain,", " Grateful for all thy mercies past,", "And hope, my God, to thee again", " This erring life may fly at last." ], "linecount": "64" }, { "title": "19. A Prayer in the Prospect of Death", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "O THOU unknown, Almighty Cause", " Of all my hope and fear!", "In whose dread presence, ere an hour,", " Perhaps I must appear!", "", "", "If I have wander’d in those paths", " Of life I ought to shun,", "As something, loudly, in my breast,", " Remonstrates I have done;", "", "", "Thou know’st that Thou hast formed me", " With passions wild and strong;", "And list’ning to their witching voice", " Has often led me wrong.", "", "", "Where human weakness has come short,", " Or frailty stept aside,", "Do Thou, All-Good-for such Thou art—", " In shades of darkness hide.", "", "", "Where with intention I have err’d,", " No other plea I have,", "But, Thou art good; and Goodness still", " Delighteth to forgive." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "YE Irish lords, ye knights an’ squires,", "Wha represent our brughs an’ shires,", "An’ doucely manage our affairs", " In parliament,", "To you a simple poet’s pray’rs", " Are humbly sent.", "", "", "Alas! my roupit Muse is hearse!", "Your Honours’ hearts wi’ grief ’twad pierce,", "To see her sittin on her arse", " Low i’ the dust,", "And scriechinh out prosaic verse,", " An like to brust!", "", "", "Tell them wha hae the chief direction,", "Scotland an’ me’s in great affliction,", "E’er sin’ they laid that curst restriction", " On aqua-vit&æ;", "An’ rouse them up to strong conviction,", " An’ move their pity.", "", "", "Stand forth an’ tell yon Premier youth", "The honest, open, naked truth:", "Tell him o’ mine an’ Scotland’s drouth,", " His servants humble:", "The muckle deevil blaw you south", " If ye dissemble!", "", "", "Does ony great man glunch an’ gloom?", "Speak out, an’ never fash your thumb!", "Let posts an’ pensions sink or soom", " Wi’ them wha grant them;", "If honestly they canna come,", " Far better want them.", "", "", "In gath’rin votes you were na slack;", "Now stand as tightly by your tack:", "Ne’er claw your lug, an’ fidge your back,", " An’ hum an’ haw;", "But raise your arm, an’ tell your crack", " Before them a’.", "", "", "Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle;", "Her mutchkin stowp as toom’s a whissle;", "An’ d—mn’d excisemen in a bussle,", " Seizin a stell,", "Triumphant crushin’t like a mussel,", " Or limpet shell!", "", "", "Then, on the tither hand present her—", "A blackguard smuggler right behint her,", "An’ cheek-for-chow, a chuffie vintner", " Colleaguing join,", "Picking her pouch as bare as winter", " Of a’ kind coin.", "", "", "Is there, that bears the name o’ Scot,", "But feels his heart’s bluid rising hot,", "To see his poor auld mither’s pot", " Thus dung in staves,", "An’ plunder’d o’ her hindmost groat", " By gallows knaves?", "", "", "Alas! I’m but a nameless wight,", "Trode i’ the mire out o’ sight?", "But could I like Montgomeries fight,", " Or gab like Boswell, 2", "There’s some sark-necks I wad draw tight,", " An’ tie some hose well.", "", "", "God bless your Honours! can ye see’t—", "The kind, auld cantie carlin greet,", "An’ no get warmly to your feet,", " An’ gar them hear it,", "An’ tell them wi’a patriot-heat", " Ye winna bear it?", "", "", "Some o’ you nicely ken the laws,", "To round the period an’ pause,", "An’ with rhetoric clause on clause", " To mak harangues;", "Then echo thro’ Saint Stephen’s wa’s", " Auld Scotland’s wrangs.", "", "", "Dempster, 3 a true blue Scot I’se warran’;", "Thee, aith-detesting, chaste Kilkerran; 4", "An’ that glib-gabbit Highland baron,", " The Laird o’ Graham; 5", "An’ ane, a chap that’s damn’d aulfarran’,", " Dundas his name: 6", "", "", "Erskine, a spunkie Norland billie; 7", "True Campbells, Frederick and Ilay; 8", "An’ Livistone, the bauld Sir Willie; 9", " An’ mony ithers,", "Whom auld Demosthenes or Tully", " Might own for brithers.", "", "", "See sodger Hugh, 10 my watchman stented,", "If poets e’er are represented;", "I ken if that your sword were wanted,", " Ye’d lend a hand;", "But when there’s ought to say anent it,", " Ye’re at a stand.", "", "", "Arouse, my boys! exert your mettle,", "To get auld Scotland back her kettle;", "Or faith! I’ll wad my new pleugh-pettle,", " Ye’ll see’t or lang,", "She’ll teach you, wi’ a reekin whittle,", " Anither sang.", "", "", "This while she’s been in crankous mood,", "Her lost Militia fir’d her bluid;", "(Deil na they never mair do guid,", " Play’d her that pliskie!)", "An’ now she’s like to rin red-wud", " About her whisky.", "", "", "An’ Lord! if ance they pit her till’t,", "Her tartan petticoat she’ll kilt,", "An’durk an’ pistol at her belt,", " She’ll tak the streets,", "An’ rin her whittle to the hilt,", " I’ the first she meets!", "", "", "For God sake, sirs! then speak her fair,", "An’ straik her cannie wi’ the hair,", "An’ to the muckle house repair,", " Wi’ instant speed,", "An’ strive, wi’ a’ your wit an’ lear,", " To get remead.", "", "", "Yon ill-tongu’d tinkler, Charlie Fox,", "May taunt you wi’ his jeers and mocks;", "But gie him’t het, my hearty cocks!", " E’en cowe the cadie!", "An’ send him to his dicing box", " An’ sportin’ lady.", "", "", "Tell you guid bluid o’ auld Boconnock’s, 11", "I’ll be his debt twa mashlum bonnocks,", "An’ drink his health in auld Nance Tinnock’s 12", " Nine times a-week,", "If he some scheme, like tea an’ winnocks,", " Was kindly seek.", "", "", "Could he some commutation broach,", "I’ll pledge my aith in guid braid Scotch,", "He needna fear their foul reproach", " Nor erudition,", "Yon mixtie-maxtie, queer hotch-potch,", " The Coalition.", "", "", "Auld Scotland has a raucle tongue;", "She’s just a devil wi’ a rung;", "An’ if she promise auld or young", " To tak their part,", "Tho’ by the neck she should be strung,", " She’ll no desert.", "", "", "And now, ye chosen Five-and-Forty,", "May still you mither’s heart support ye;", "Then, tho’a minister grow dorty,", " An’ kick your place,", "Ye’ll snap your gingers, poor an’ hearty,", " Before his face.", "", "", "God bless your Honours, a’ your days,", "Wi’ sowps o’ kail and brats o’ claise,", "In spite o’ a’ the thievish kaes,", " That haunt St. Jamie’s!", "Your humble poet sings an’ prays,", " While Rab his name is.", "", "", "POSTSCRIPTLET half-starv’d slaves in warmer skies", "See future wines, rich-clust’ring, rise;", "Their lot auld Scotland ne’re envies,", " But, blythe and frisky,", "She eyes her freeborn, martial boys", " Tak aff their whisky.", "", "", "What tho’ their Phoebus kinder warms,", "While fragrance blooms and beauty charms,", "When wretches range, in famish’d swarms,", " The scented groves;", "Or, hounded forth, dishonour arms", " In hungry droves!", "", "", "Their gun’s a burden on their shouther;", "They downa bide the stink o’ powther;", "Their bauldest thought’s a hank’ring swither", " To stan’ or rin,", "Till skelp—a shot—they’re aff, a’throw’ther,", " To save their skin.", "", "", "But bring a Scotchman frae his hill,", "Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,", "Say, such is royal George’s will,", " An’ there’s the foe!", "He has nae thought but how to kill", " Twa at a blow.", "", "", "Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him;", "Death comes, wi’ fearless eye he sees him;", "Wi’bluidy hand a welcome gies him;", " An’ when he fa’s,", "His latest draught o’ breathin lea’es him", " In faint huzzas.", "", "", "Sages their solemn een may steek,", "An’ raise a philosophic reek,", "An’ physically causes seek,", " In clime an’ season;", "But tell me whisky’s name in Greek", " I’ll tell the reason.", "", "", "Scotland, my auld, respected mither!", "Tho’ whiles ye moistify your leather,", "Till, whare ye sit on craps o’ heather,", " Ye tine your dam;", "Freedom an’ whisky gang thegither!", " Take aff your dram!", "", "", " Note 1. This was written before the Act anent the Scotch distilleries, of session 1786, for which Scotland and the author return their most grateful thanks.—R. B. [back]", "Note 2. James Boswell of Auchinleck, the biographer of Johnson. [back]", "Note 3. George Dempster of Dunnichen. [back]", "Note 4. Sir Adam Ferguson of Kilkerran, Bart. [back]", "Note 5. The Marquis of Graham, eldest son of the Duke of Montrose. [back]", "Note 6. Right Hon. Henry Dundas, M. P. [back]", "Note 7. Probably Thomas, afterward Lord Erskine. [back]", "Note 8. Lord Frederick Campbell, second brother of the Duke of Argyll, and Ilay Campbell, Lord Advocate for Scotland, afterward President of the Court of Session. [back]", "Note 9. Sir Wm. Augustus Cunningham, Baronet, of Livingstone. [back]", "Note 10. Col. Hugh Montgomery, afterward Earl of Eglinton. [back]", "Note 11. Pitt, whose grandfather was of Boconnock in Cornwall. [back]", "Note 12. A worthy old hostess of the author’s in Mauchline, where he sometimes studies politics over a glass of gude auld Scotch Drink.—R. B. [back]" ], "linecount": "204" }, { "title": "57. Holy Willie’s Prayer", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell,", "Who, as it pleases best Thysel’,", "Sends ane to heaven an’ ten to hell,", " A’ for Thy glory,", "And no for ony gude or ill", " They’ve done afore Thee!", "", "", "I bless and praise Thy matchless might,", "When thousands Thou hast left in night,", "That I am here afore Thy sight,", " For gifts an’ grace", "A burning and a shining light", " To a’ this place.", "", "", "What was I, or my generation,", "That I should get sic exaltation,", "I wha deserve most just damnation", " For broken laws,", "Five thousand years ere my creation,", " Thro’ Adam’s cause?", "", "", "When frae my mither’s womb I fell,", "Thou might hae plunged me in hell,", "To gnash my gums, to weep and wail,", " In burnin lakes,", "Where damned devils roar and yell,", " Chain’d to their stakes.", "", "", "Yet I am here a chosen sample,", "To show thy grace is great and ample;", "I’m here a pillar o’ Thy temple,", " Strong as a rock,", "A guide, a buckler, and example,", " To a’ Thy flock.", "", "", "O L—d, Thou kens what zeal I bear,", "When drinkers drink, an’ swearers swear,", "An’ singin there, an’ dancin here,", " Wi’ great and sma’;", "For I am keepit by Thy fear", " Free frae them a’.", "", "", "But yet, O L—d! confess I must,", "At times I’m fash’d wi’ fleshly lust:", "An’ sometimes, too, in wardly trust,", " Vile self gets in:", "But Thou remembers we are dust,", " Defil’d wi’ sin.", "", "", "O L—d! yestreen, Thou kens, wi’ Meg—", "Thy pardon I sincerely beg,", "O! may’t ne’er be a livin plague", " To my dishonour,", "An’ I’ll ne’er lift a lawless leg", " Again upon her.", "", "", "Besides, I farther maun allow,", "Wi’ Leezie’s lass, three times I trow—", "But L—d, that Friday I was fou,", " When I cam near her;", "Or else, Thou kens, Thy servant true", " Wad never steer her.", "", "", "Maybe Thou lets this fleshly thorn", "Buffet Thy servant e’en and morn,", "Lest he owre proud and high shou’d turn,", " That he’s sae gifted:", "If sae, Thy han’ maun e’en be borne,", " Until Thou lift it.", "", "", "L—d, bless Thy chosen in this place,", "For here Thou hast a chosen race:", "But G—d confound their stubborn face,", " An’ blast their name,", "Wha bring Thy elders to disgrace", " An’ public shame.", "", "", "L—d, mind Gaw’n Hamilton’s deserts;", "He drinks, an’ swears, an’ plays at cartes,", "Yet has sae mony takin arts,", " Wi’ great and sma’,", "Frae G—d’s ain priest the people’s hearts", " He steals awa.", "", "", "An’ when we chasten’d him therefor,", "Thou kens how he bred sic a splore,", "An’ set the warld in a roar", " O’ laughing at us;—", "Curse Thou his basket and his store,", " Kail an’ potatoes.", "", "", "L—d, hear my earnest cry and pray’r,", "Against that Presbyt’ry o’ Ayr;", "Thy strong right hand, L—d, make it bare", " Upo’ their heads;", "L—d visit them, an’ dinna spare,", " For their misdeeds.", "", "", "O L—d, my G—d! that glib-tongu’d Aiken,", "My vera heart and flesh are quakin,", "To think how we stood sweatin’, shakin,", " An’ p—’d wi’ dread,", "While he, wi’ hingin lip an’ snakin,", " Held up his head.", "", "", "L—d, in Thy day o’ vengeance try him,", "L—d, visit them wha did employ him,", "And pass not in Thy mercy by ’em,", " Nor hear their pray’r,", "But for Thy people’s sake, destroy ’em,", " An’ dinna spare.", "", "", "But, L—d, remember me an’ mine", "Wi’ mercies temp’ral an’ divine,", "That I for grace an’ gear may shine,", " Excell’d by nane,", "And a’ the glory shall be thine,", " Amen, Amen!" ], "linecount": "102" }, { "title": "16. A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "O THOU Great Being! what Thou art,", " Surpasses me to know;", "Yet sure I am, that known to Thee", " Are all Thy works below.", "", "", "Thy creature here before Thee stands,", " All wretched and distrest;", "Yet sure those ills that wring my soul", " Obey Thy high behest.", "", "", "Sure, Thou, Almighty, canst not act", "From cruelty or wrath!", "O, free my weary eyes from tears,", "Or close them fast in death!", "", "", "But, if I must afflicted be,", "To suit some wise design,", "Then man my soul with firm resolves,", "To bear and not repine!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "136. Prayer—O Thou Dread Power", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "O THOU dread Power, who reign’st above,", " I know thou wilt me hear,", "When for this scene of peace and love,", " I make this prayer sincere.", "", "", "The hoary Sire—the mortal stroke,", " Long, long be pleas’d to spare;", "To bless this little filial flock,", " And show what good men are.", "", "", "She, who her lovely offspring eyes", " With tender hopes and fears,", "O bless her with a mother’s joys,", " But spare a mother’s tears!", "", "", "Their hope, their stay, their darling youth.", " In manhood’s dawning blush,", "Bless him, Thou God of love and truth,", " Up to a parent’s wish.", "", "", "The beauteous, seraph sister-band—", " With earnest tears I pray—", "Thou know’st the snares on ev’ry hand,", " Guide Thou their steps alway.", "", "", "When, soon or late, they reach that coast,", " O’er Life’s rough ocean driven,", "May they rejoice, no wand’rer lost,", " A family in Heaven!" ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "79. Adam Armour’s Prayer", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "GUDE pity me, because I’m little!", "For though I am an elf o’ mettle,", "An’ can, like ony wabster’s shuttle,", " Jink there or here,", "Yet, scarce as lang’s a gude kail-whittle,", " I’m unco queer.", "", "", "An’ now Thou kens our waefu’ case;", "For Geordie’s jurr we’re in disgrace,", "Because we stang’d her through the place,", " An’ hurt her spleuchan;", "For whilk we daurna show our face", " Within the clachan.", "", "", "An’ now we’re dern’d in dens and hollows,", "And hunted, as was William Wallace,", "Wi’ constables-thae blackguard fallows,", " An’ sodgers baith;", "But Gude preserve us frae the gallows,", " That shamefu’ death!", "", "", "Auld grim black-bearded Geordie’s sel’—", "O shake him owre the mouth o’ hell!", "There let him hing, an’ roar, an’ yell", " Wi’ hideous din,", "And if he offers to rebel,", " Then heave him in.", "", "", "When Death comes in wi’ glimmerin blink,", "An’ tips auld drucken Nanse the wink,", "May Sautan gie her doup a clink", " Within his yett,", "An’ fill her up wi’ brimstone drink,", " Red-reekin het.", "", "", "Though Jock an’ hav’rel Jean are merry—", "Some devil seize them in a hurry,", "An’ waft them in th’ infernal wherry", " Straught through the lake,", "An’ gie their hides a noble curry", " Wi’ oil of aik!", "", "", "As for the jurr-puir worthless body!", "She’s got mischief enough already;", "Wi’ stanged hips, and buttocks bluidy", " She’s suffer’d sair;", "But, may she wintle in a woody,", " If she wh-e mair!" ], "linecount": "42" }, { "title": "His Prayer For Absolution", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "For those my unbaptized rhymes,", "Writ in my wild unhallowed times,", "For every sentence, clause, and word,", "That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,", "Forgive me, God, and blot each line", "Out of my book, that is not Thine.", "But if, 'mongst all, Thou find'st here one", "Worthy thy benediction,", "That one of all the rest shall be", "The glory of my work, and me." ], "linecount": "10" }, { "title": "MATINS, OR MORNING PRAYER", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "When with the virgin morning thou dost rise,", "Crossing thyself come thus to sacrifice;", "First wash thy heart in innocence; then bring", "Pure hands, pure habits, pure, pure every thing.", "Next to the altar humbly kneel, and thence", "Give up thy soul in clouds of frankincense.", "Thy golden censers fill'd with odours sweet", "Shall make thy actions with their ends to meet." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "His Prayer To Ben Jonson", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "When I a verse shall make,", "Know I have pray'd thee,", "For old religion's sake,", "Saint Ben to aid me.", "", "Make the way smooth for me,", "When I, thy Herrick,", "Honouring thee, on my knee", "Offer my lyric.", "", "Candles I'll give to thee,", "And a new altar,", "And thou, Saint Ben, shalt be", "Writ in my psalter." ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "THE OLD WIVES' PRAYER", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "Holy-Rood, come forth and shield", "Us i' th' city and the field;", "Safely guard us, now and aye,", "From the blast that burns by day;", "And those sounds that us affright", "In the dead of dampish night;", "Drive all hurtful fiends us fro,", "By the time the cocks first crow." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Prayer", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "lines": [ "I ASK good things that I detest,", "With speeches fair;", "Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,", "But hear my prayer.", "", "I say ill things I would not say -", "Things unaware:", "Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,", "And not my prayer.", "", "My heart is evil in Thy sight:", "My good thoughts flee:", "O Lord, I cannot wish aright -", "Wish Thou for me.", "", "O bend my words and acts to Thee,", "However ill,", "That I, whate'er I say or be,", "May serve Thee still.", "", "O let my thoughts abide in Thee", "Lest I should fall:", "Show me Thyself in all I see,", "Thou Lord of all." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "The Power Of Prayer", "author": "Sidney Lanier", "lines": [ "or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama.", "", "You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet.", "De Lord, HE made dese black-jack roots to twis' into a seat.", "Umph, dar! De Lord have mussy on dis blin' ole nigger's feet.", "", "It 'pear to me dis mornin' I kin smell de fust o' June.", "I 'clar', I b'lieve dat mockin'-bird could play de fiddle soon!", "Dem yonder town-bells sounds like dey was ringin' in de moon.", "", "Well, ef dis nigger IS been blind for fo'ty year or mo',", "Dese ears, DEY sees the world, like, th'u' de cracks dat's in de do'.", "For de Lord has built dis body wid de windows 'hind and 'fo'.", "", "I know my front ones IS stopped up, and things is sort o' dim,", "But den, th'u' DEM, temptation's rain won't leak in on ole Jim!", "De back ones show me earth enough, aldo' dey's mons'ous slim.", "", "And as for Hebben, -- bless de Lord, and praise His holy name --", "DAT shines in all de co'ners of dis cabin jes' de same", "As ef dat cabin hadn't nar' a plank upon de frame!", "", "Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don't you hyar", "Somebody holl'in' \"Hoo, Jim, hoo?\" My Sarah died las' y'ar;", "IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f'om hyar?", "", "My stars, dat cain't be Sarah, shuh! Jes' listen, Dinah, NOW!", "What KIN be comin' up dat bend, a-makin' sich a row?", "Fus' bellerin' like a pawin' bull, den squealin' like a sow?", "", "De Lord 'a' mussy sakes alive, jes' hear, -- ker-woof, ker-woof --", "De Debble's comin' round dat bend, he's comin' shuh enuff,", "A-splashin' up de water wid his tail and wid his hoof!", "", "I'se pow'ful skeered; but neversomeless I ain't gwine run away:", "I'm gwine to stand stiff-legged for de Lord dis blessed day.", "YOU screech, and swish de water, Satan! I'se a gwine to pray.", "", "O hebbenly Marster, what thou willest, dat mus' be jes' so,", "And ef Thou hast bespoke de word, some nigger's bound to go.", "Den, Lord, please take ole Jim, and lef young Dinah hyar below!", "", "'Scuse Dinah, 'scuse her, Marster; for she's sich a little chile,", "She hardly jes' begin to scramble up de homeyard stile,", "But dis ole traveller's feet been tired dis many a many a mile.", "", "I'se wufless as de rotten pole of las' year's fodder-stack.", "De rheumatiz done bit my bones; you hear 'em crack and crack?", "I cain'st sit down 'dout gruntin' like 'twas breakin' o' my back.", "", "What use de wheel, when hub and spokes is warped and split, and rotten?", "What use dis dried-up cotton-stalk, when Life done picked my cotton?", "I'se like a word dat somebody said, and den done been forgotten.", "", "But, Dinah! Shuh dat gal jes' like dis little hick'ry tree,", "De sap's jes' risin in her; she do grow owdaciouslee --", "Lord, ef you's clarin' de underbrush, don't cut her down, cut me!", "", "I would not proud persume -- but I'll boldly make reques';", "Sence Jacob had dat wrastlin'-match, I, too, gwine do my bes';", "When Jacob got all underholt, de Lord he answered Yes!", "", "And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,", "Jes' for to strength dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?", "T'ink of de 'conomy, Marster, ef dis ole Jim was dead!", "", "Stop; -- ef I don't believe de Debble's gone on up de stream!", "Jes' now he squealed down dar; -- hush; dat's a mighty weakly scream!", "Yas, sir, he's gone, he's gone; -- he snort way off, like in a dream!", "", "O glory hallelujah to de Lord dat reigns on high!", "De Debble's fai'ly skeered to def, he done gone flyin' by;", "I know'd he couldn' stand dat pra'r, I felt my Marster nigh!", "", "You, Dinah; ain't you 'shamed, now, dat you didn' trust to grace?", "I heerd you thrashin' th'u' de bushes when he showed his face!", "You fool, you think de Debble couldn't beat YOU in a race?", "", "I tell you, Dinah, jes' as shuh as you is standin' dar,", "When folks starts prayin', answer-angels drops down th'u' de a'r.", "YAS, DINAH, WHAR 'OULD YOU BE NOW, JES' 'CEPTIN' FUR DAT PRA'R?" ], "linecount": "61" }, { "title": "Prayer of Columbus.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "lines": [ "A BATTER’D, wreck’d old man,", "Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,", "Pent by the sea, and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,", "Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken’d, and nigh to death,", "I take my way along the island’s edge,", "Venting a heavy heart.", "", "I am too full of woe!", "Haply, I may not live another day;", "I can not rest, O God—I can not eat or drink or sleep,", "Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,", "Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee—commune with Thee,", "Report myself once more to Thee.", "", "Thou knowest my years entire, my life,", "(My long and crowded life of active work—not adoration merely;)", "Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth;", "Thou knowest my manhood’s solemn and visionary meditations;", "Thou knowest how, before I commenced, I devoted all to come to Thee;", "Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows, and strictly kept them;", "Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee;", "(In shackles, prison’d, in disgrace, repining not,", "Accepting all from Thee—as duly come from Thee.)", "", "All my emprises have been fill’d with Thee,", "My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,", "Sailing the deep, or journeying the land for Thee;", "Intentions, purports, aspirations mine—leaving results to Thee.", "", "O I am sure they really come from Thee!", "The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will,", "The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,", "A message from the Heavens, whispering to me even in sleep,", "These sped me on.", "", "By me, and these, the work so far accomplish’d (for what has been, has been;)", "By me Earth’s elder, cloy’d and stifled lands, uncloy’d, unloos’d;", "By me the hemispheres rounded and tied—the unknown to the known.", "", "The end I know not—it is all in Thee;", "Or small, or great, I know not—haply, what broad fields, what lands;", "Haply, the brutish, measureless human undergrowth I know,", "Transplanted there, may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee;", "Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn’d to reaping-tools;", "Haply the lifeless cross I know—Europe’s dead cross—may bud and blossom", " there.", "", "One effort more—my altar this bleak sand:", "That Thou, O God, my life hast lighted,", "With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,", "(Light rare, untellable—lighting the very light!", "Beyond all signs, descriptions, languages!)", "For that, O God—be it my latest word—here on my knees,", "Old, poor, and paralyzed—I thank Thee.", "", "My terminus near,", "The clouds already closing in upon me,", "The voyage balk’d—the course disputed, lost,", "I yield my ships to Thee.", "", "Steersman unseen! henceforth the helms are Thine;", "Take Thou command—(what to my petty skill Thy navigation?)", "My hands, my limbs grow nerveless;", "My brain feels rack’d, bewilder’d; Let the old timbers part—I will not", " part!", "I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me;", "Thee, Thee, at least, I know.", "", "Is it the prophet’s thought I speak, or am I raving?", "What do I know of life? what of myself?", "I know not even my own work, past or present;", "Dim, ever-shifting guesses of it spread before me,", "Of newer, better worlds, their mighty parturition,", "Mocking, perplexing me.", "", "And these things I see suddenly—what mean they?", "As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal’d my eyes,", "Shadowy, vast shapes, smile through the air and sky,", "And on the distant waves sail countless ships,", "And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me." ], "linecount": "69" }, { "title": "Prayer for Children", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "Gracious Lord, our children see,", "By Thy mercy we are free;", "But shall these, alas! remain", "Subjects still of Satan's reign?", "Israel's young ones, when of old", "Pharaoh threaten'd to withhold,", "Then Thy messenger said, \"No;", "Let the children also go!\"", "", "When the angel of the Lord,", "Drawing forth his dreadful sword,", "Slew with an avenging hand,", "All the first-born of the land;", "Then Thy people's door he pass'd,", "Where the bloody sign was placed:", "Hear us, now, upon our knees,", "Plead the blood of Christ for these!", "", "Lord, we tremble, for we know", "How the fierce malicious foe,", "Wheeling round his watchful flight,", "Keeps them ever in his sight:", "Spread Thy pinions, King of kings!", "Hide them safe beneath Thy wings;", "Lest the ravenous bird of prey", "Stoop and bear the brood away." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "On Opening a Place for Social Prayer", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "Jesus! where'er Thy people meet,", "There they behold Thy mercy seat;", "Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found,", "And every place is hallow'd ground.", "", "For Thou, within no walls confined,", "Inhabitest the humble mind;", "Such ever bring Thee where they come", "And going, take Thee to their home.", "", "Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few!", "Thy former mercies here renew;", "Her to our waiting hearts proclaim", "The sweetness of Thy saving name.", "", "Here may we prove the power of prayer,", "To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;", "To teach our faint desires to rise,", "And bring all Heaven before our eyes.", "", "Behold, at Thy commanding word", "We stretch the curtain and the cord;", "Come Thou, and fill this wider space,", "And bless us with a large increase.", "", "Lord, we are few, but Thou art near:", "Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear;", "Oh rend the heavens, come quickly down,", "And make a thousand hearts Thine own." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Exhortation to Prayer", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "What various hindrances we meet", "In coming to a mercy seat!", "Yet who that knows the worth of prayer,", "But wishes to be often there?", "", "Prayer makes the darken'd cloud withdraw,", "Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,", "Gives exercise to faith and love,", "Brings every blessing from above.", "", "Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;", "Prayer makes the Christian's armour bright;", "And Satan trembles when he sees", "The weakest saint upon his knees.", "", "While Moses stood with arms spread wide,", "Success was found on Israel's side;", "But when through weariness they fail'd,", "That moment Amalek prevail'd.", "", "Have you no words? Ah, think again,", "Words flow apace when you complain,", "And fill your fellow-creature's ear", "With the sad tale of all your care.", "", "Were half the breath thus vainly spent", "To heaven in supplication sent,", "Your cheerful song would oftener be,", "\"Hear what the Lord has done for me.\"" ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Prayer for Patience", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me,", "My peace and pardon to procure,", "The lighter cross I bear for Thee,", "Help me with patience to endure.", "", "The storm of loud repining hush;", "I would in humble silence mourn;", "Why should the unburnt, though burning bush,", "Be angry as the crackling thorn?", "", "Man should not faint at Thy rebuke,", "Like Joshua falling on his face,", "When the cursed thing that Achan took", "Brought Israel into just disgrace.", "", "Perhaps some golden wedge suppress'd,", "Some secret sin offends my God;", "Perhaps that Babylonish vest,", "Self-righteousness, provokes the rod.", "", "Ah! were I buffeted all day,", "Mock'd, crown'd with thorns and spit upon,", "I yet should have no right to say,", "My great distress is mine alone.", "", "Let me not angrily declare", "No pain was ever sharp like mine,", "Nor murmur at the cross I bear,", "But rather weep, remembering Thine." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "The House of Prayer", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "(Mark, xi.17)", "", "Thy mansion is the Christian's heart,", "O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure!", "Bid the unruly throng depart,", "And leave the consecrated door.", "", "Devoted as it is to Thee,", "A thievish swarm frequents the place,", "They steal away my hopes from me,", "And rob my Saviour of His praise.", "", "There, too, a sharp designing trade", "Sin, Satan, and the World maintain;", "Nor cease to press me, and persuade", "To part with ease, and purchase pain.", "", "I know them, and I hate their din;", "And weary of the bustling crowd;", "But while their voice is heard within,", "I cannot serve Thee as I would.", "", "Oh! for the joy thy presence gives,", "What peace shall reign when Thou art there;", "Thy presence makes this den of thieves", "A calm delightful house of prayer.", "", "And if Thou make Thy temple shine,", "Yet self-abased, will I adore;", "The gold and silver are not mine;", "I give Thee waht was Thine before." ], "linecount": "25" }, { "title": "Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", " For other's weal availed on high,", "Mine will not all be lost in air,", " But waft thy name beyond the sky.", "'Twere vain to speak--to weep--to sigh:", " Oh! more than tears of blood can tell,", "When wrung from Guilt's expiring eye,", " Are in that word--Farewell!--Farewell!", "", "These lips are mute, these eyes are dry;", " But in my breast and in my brain,", "Awake the pangs that pass not by,", " The thought that ne'er shall sleep again.", "My soul nor deigns nor dares complain,", " Though Grief and Passion there rebel:", "I only know we loved in vain--", " I only feel--Farewell!--Farewell!" ], "linecount": "16" } ]