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ALL FRIENDLY READERS.

There are, who love upon their knees
To linger when their prayers are said,
And lengthen out their Litanies,

In duteous care for quick and dead.
Thou, of all Love the Source and Guide!
O may some hovering thought of theirs,
Where I am kneeling, gently glide,

And higher waft these earth-bound prayers.

There are, who gazing on the stars
Love-tokens read from worlds of light,
Not as dim-seen through prison-bars,
But as with Angels' welcome bright.