Classic Poem

Praise! for slumbers of the night,
For the wak'ning morning-light;
For the board with plenty spread,
Gladness on the spirit shed,
Healthful pulse, and cloudless eye,
Opening on the smiling sky:

Praise! for loving hearts, that still
With life's bounding pulses thrill;
Praise! that still our own may know
Earthly joy and earthly woe;
Praise! for ev'ry varied good,
Bounteous round our pathway strew'd:

Pray'r! for grateful hearts to raise
Incense meet of pray'r and praise;
Pray'r! for spirits calm and meek,
Wisdom, life's best joys to seek;
Strength, midst devious paths, to tread,
That through which the Savior led:

Pray'r! for those who, day by day,
Weep their bitter lives away;
Pray'r! for those, who bind the chain
Rudely on the throbbing vein,
That repentance deep may win
Pardon for the fearful sin.