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作者:套牢      更新:2021-02-20 16:02      字数:1891
  the same time with the grace of courage; that we be none of us cast down
  when   we  sit   lamenting  amid   the   ruins of   our happiness   or our   integrity:
  touch us with fire from the altar; that we may be up and doing to rebuild
  our city: in the name and by the method of him in whose words of prayer
  we now conclude。
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  Prayers Written At Vailima
  FOR SELF…FORGETFULNESS
  LORD;      the   creatures   of   thy   hand;  thy   disinherited    children;   come
  before   Thee   with   their   incoherent   wishes   and   regrets:   Children   we   are;
  children   we   shall   be;   till   our   mother   the   earth   hath   fed   upon   our   bones。
  Accept us; correct us; guide us; thy guilty innocents。 Dry our vain tears;
  wipe out our vain resentments; help our yet vainer efforts。 If there be any
  here; sulking as   children will;  deal with and   enlighten him。  Make it   day
  about that   person; so that he   shall see himself   and be   ashamed。  Make   it
  heaven about him; Lord; by the only way to heaven; forgetfulness of self;
  and make it day about his neighbours; so that they shall help; not hinder
  him。
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  Prayers Written At Vailima
  FOR RENEWAL OF JOY
  WE are evil; O God; and help us to see it and amend。 We are good; and
  help us to be better。 Look down upon thy servants with a patient eye; even
  as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down; call upon the dry bones; quicken;
  enliven; recreate in us the soul of service; the spirit of peace; renew in us
  the sense of joy。
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