Poems (Linn)/A Prayer
For works with similar titles, see A Prayer.
A PRAYER.
IN every great heroic deed That lifts the human race;In smallest, dear self-sacrifice, I see Thy tender face.
I cannot see Thee yet, O God! In squalor, and in crime;I long to reach that upward way Whence all things seem sublime,
Help me, Thy struggling child, to see The mighty in the small;Through evil as through righteousness, To name Thee God of all.