We pray that “temptations may never assail us,”
And “deliverance beg from all evil,” we find:
But we never can hope that our prayer will avail us,
If we strive not to banish ill thoughts from our mind.
“For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever,” these titles are meant
To express God’s dominion and majesty o’er ye;
And “Amen” to the sense of the whole gives assent.
