| Be not afraid to pray—to pray is right. |
| Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, |
| Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay; |
| Pray in the darkness if there be no light. |
| Far is the time, remote from human sight, |
| When war and discord on the earth shall cease; |
| Yet every prayer for universal peace |
| Avails the blessed time to expedite. |
| What’er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven, |
| Though it be what thou can’st not hope to see; |
| Pray to be perfect, though material leaven |
| Forbid the Spirit so on earth to be; |
| But if for any wish thou darest not pray, |
| Then pray to God to cast that wish away. |
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)
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