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Gay, guiltless pair,
What seek ye from the fields of heaven?
Ye have no need of prayer,
Ye have no sins to be forgiven.

— Charles Sprague

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Through life’s dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.

Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctors’ spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,
And lap me in delight.

Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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