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PRAYER by JAMES ELROY FLECKER

First Line: LET ME NOT KNOW HOW SINS AND SORROWS GLIDE
Last Line: HOW FAINT, HOW LOUD THE BRAVEST HEARTS HAVE CRIED.
Subject(s): PRAYER;
Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide
Along the sombre city of our rage,
Or why the sons of men are heavy-eyed.

Let me not know, except from printed page,
The pain of bitter love, of baffled pride,
Or sickness shadowing with a long presage.

Let me not know, since happy some have died
Quickly in youth or quietly in age,
How faint, how loud the bravest hearts have cried.



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