Of this poor faltering tongue;
And that shall the first notes employ
Of my celestial song.
487. L. M. Henry Moore.
Prayer for Religious Principle.
1Amidst a world of hopes and fears,
A wild of cares, and toils, and tears,
Where foes alarm and dangers threat,
And pleasures kill, and glories cheat:
2Shed down, O Lord! a heavenly ray,