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My prayer for the Tsars, / These traffickers in blood, / That Thou on them would'st put / Fetters of iron, in dungeons deep.
My prayer for the peoples / toiling long, / Do Thou to them / on their ravaged lands, / Send down Thy strength / most merciful One.
And for the pure in heart / Grant angel guards beside them, / To keep them pure.
And for myself, Oh Lord, / I ask nought else / But truth on earth to love, / And one true friend / to love me.