Prayer

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

Forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,

In purer lives Thy service find,

In deeper reverence, praise.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,

Till all our strivings cease;

take from our souls the strain and stress,

And let our ordered lives confess

The beauty of Thy peace.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier