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“Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.”
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- Source:
- What is Prayer?
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3949a419354ed2848955b4259b66b413ffd556e8d51aec0c1bbcb448936e07ae
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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