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    ~A Morning Prayer~ <br />
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    Let me to-day do something that shall take<br />
    A little sadness from the world’s vast store,<br />
    And may I be so favoured as to make<br />
    Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more.<br />
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    Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed<br />
    Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;<br />
    Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,<br />
    Or sin by silence when I should defend.<br />
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    However meagre be my worldly wealth,<br />
    Let me give something that shall aid my kind—<br />
    A word of courage, or a thought of health,<br />
    Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.<br />
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    Let me to-night look back across the span<br />
    ‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say—<br />
    Because of some good act to beast or man—<br />
    “The world is better that I lived today.”<br />
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    ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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