The Evening and the Morning Star/Volume 1/Number 1/The Prayer of a Wise Heathen
[The Prayer of a wise Heathen.]
GREAT JOVE, this one petition grant;
(Thou knowest best what mortals want;)
Ask'd or unask'd, what's good supply;
What's evil, to our pray'rs deny!
The body is but chaff—
The soul may live in glory,
When this Earth's epitaph
Is written in its ashes!