by Abbie Farwell Brown (? - 1927)

Prayer of a tired child
Language: English 
Our Father, hear a tirèd child
  Who has forgot her prayer,
And cannot find the words of it,
  Which wander ev'rywhere.

You used to carry in your arms
  The lambkins dumb and white,
Who had grown weary of their play,
  And stumbled in the night.

I also am your little lamb,
  Who has no word to pray.
Dear Father, will you bear me too
  Along the darkling way?

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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 68