Thursday, January 16, 2025

Thursday's Thoughts: A Little Prayer

 




🎂A Happy Birthday Salute To "The Bard Of The Yukon"🎂


Robert William Service
January 16, 1874-September 11, 1958
British-born Canadian poet
Image courtesy/Wikipedia



Let us be thankful, Lord, for the little things-

The song of birds, the rapture of the rose;

Cloud-dappled skies, the laugh of limpid springs,

Drowned sunbeams and the perfume April blows;

Bronze wheat a-shimmer, purple shades of trees-

Let us be thankful, Lord of life,  for these!


Let us be praiseful, Sire, for simple sights;-

The blue smoke curling from a fire of peat;

Keen stars a-frolicking on frosty nights,

Prismatic pigeons strutting in a street;

Daises dew-diamonded in smiling sward-

For simple sights let us be praiseful, Lord!


Let us be grateful, God,  for health serene,

The hope to do a kindly deed each day;

The faith of fellowship, a conscience clean,

Thy will to worship and the gift to pray;

For all of worth in us, of You a part,

Let us be grateful, God, with a humble heart.








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