E’en with his Maker man to join, and earth with heaven.
Then let those lips that never pray’d, begin:
We must or cease to pray, or cease to sin;
Each earth-born want and wish, a grov’ling brood,
Are oft mistaken, or misunderstood;
But who would dare to pray for aught that is not good?
Nor that our prayers make Heav’n more prompt to give,
But they make us more worthy to receive:
There is in that celestial treasury
Wealth inexhaustible, admission free;