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<b><font size="4">A Prayer</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">IF thou must give something<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">Give me the undying lamp,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span
class=GramE>the lamp of thy Love:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">And silently <span class=SpellE>shalll</span> bow down<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span
class=GramE>and quietly depart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">Give to my beggar heart the touch of thy Light,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">May it bloom like a morning flower on my bosom!<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">O Mother, thy seat bounded by the moon and the stars<o:p></o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>is</span> spread in the vast stilled
spaces!<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">And yet afar from there, oh, touch the earth's heart<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>and</span> pour down thy Grace!<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">Let my soul, drowned here in loud noises,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span class=GramE>listen to the music, <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">The music of silence filling my whole being: <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">May the world with eyes wide open <span class=GramE>see</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span class=GramE>Peace
come down unending: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">O <span class=GramE>pour</span> out the delight that
shall enliven my journey, <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">The light of thy Grace shining like the<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span class=GramE>pole star in the sky: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">In darkness, unmoving, alone, <span class=SpellE>uncompanioned</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">May it flare like a torch and illumine the path<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;text-indent:
140pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>carrying</span> the
infinite Love.<o:p></o:p></p>

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140pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">I ask for nothing - only
this that thy Love</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span class=GramE>bring</span>
down upon the worn out bosom of this earth</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span class=GramE>the</span> endless flow of
Immortality.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left">That I ask for, grant it,
O Mother!</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="left"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<b>BHASKAR GUPTA</b><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:8.0pt;'> – 199<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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