<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461367" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faithful before thee, Mother of God, now kneeling,<br>Image miraculous and merciful--of thee<br>Not for my soul's health nor battles waged, beseeching,<br>Nor yet with thanks or penitence o'erwhelming me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for myself,--my heart with guilt o'erflowing--<br>Who in my home land e'er a stranger has remained,<br>No, a sinless child upon thy mercy throwing,<br>That thou protect her innocence unstained!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worthy the highest bliss, with happiness O bless her!<br>Grant her a friend to stand unchanging at her side,<br>A youth of sunshine and an old age tranquil,<br>A spirit where together peace and hope abide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, when strikes the hour her way from earth for wending,<br>Let her heart break at dawning or at dead of night--<br>From out thy highest heaven, thy fairest angel sending<br>The fairest of all souls sustain in heavenward flight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mikhail+Yuryevich+Lermontov">Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461367" data-title="A Prayer de Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov" data-description="Faithful before thee, Mother of God, now kneeling, Image miraculous and merciful--of thee Not for my soul's health nor battles waged, beseeching, Nor yet with thanks or penitence o'erwhelming me! Not for myself,--my heart with guilt o'erflowing--..."></div> </div> </div>

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