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Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872
Frederick C. Maker, 1887

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways.
Re-clothe us in our rightful mind; In purer lives Thy service find
In deeper rev'rence praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian Sea,
the gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word,
rise up and follow Thee.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of Thy peace

Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire.  Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!