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For he who climbs to say his prayer / Meets half way the descending Grace.
ELSA BARKER, in _British Review_.
This is the secret of all prayers / That in God's sight have worth, / They must be uttered from the stairs / That wind away from earth; / And he who mounts to speak the word, / He shall be heard. He shall be heard.
And he who will not leave himself, / But stays down with his cares, / Or with his thoughts of pride and pelf, / Though loud and long his prayers, / Beyond earth's dome of arching skies / They shall not rise. They shall not rise.
Oh, ye who seek for strength and power / Seek first some quiet spot, / And fashion through a silent hour / Your stairway, thought by thought; / Then climb, and pray to God on high: / He shall reply. He shall reply.