<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513863" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Soul's Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In childhood's pride I said to Thee: <br>'O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath, <br>Speak, Master, and reveal to me <br>Thine inmost laws of life and death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Give me to drink each joy and pain <br>Which Thine eternal hand can mete, <br>For my insatiate soul can drain <br>Earth's utmost bitter, utmost sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife, <br>Withhold no gift or grief I crave, <br>The intricate lore of love and life <br>And mystic knowledge of the grave.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, Thou didst answer stern and low: <br>'Child, I will hearken to thy prayer, <br>And thy unconquered soul shall know <br>All passionate rapture and despair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame, <br>And love shall burn thee like a fire, <br>And pain shall cleanse thee like a flame, <br>To purge the dross from thy desire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So shall thy chastened spirit yearn <br>To seek from its blind prayer release, <br>And spent and pardoned, sue to learn <br>The simple secret of My peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, bending from my sevenfold height, <br>Will teach thee of My quickening grace, <br>Life is a prism of My light, <br>And Death the shadow of My face.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sarojini+Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</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=513863" data-title="The Soul's Prayer de Sarojini Naidu" data-description="In childhood's pride I said to Thee: 'O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath, Speak, Master, and reveal to me Thine inmost laws of life and death. 'Give me to drink each joy and pain Which Thine eternal hand can mete, For my insatiate soul can..."></div> </div> </div>

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