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The bridge of prayer from heavenly heights suspended / Unites the earth with spirit-realms in Space. / The interests of those separate worlds are blended / For those whose feet turn often toward that place.
In troubled nights of sorrow and repining, / When joy and hope seem sunk in dark despair, / We still may see above the shadows shining, / The gleaming archway of the bridge of prayer.
From that fair height, our souls may lean and listen / To sounds of music from the farther shore, / And through the vapours, sometimes dear eyes glisten / Of loved ones who have hastened on before.
And angels come from their Celestial City -- / And meet us half way on the bridge of prayer. / God sends them forth, full of divinest pity / To strengthen us for burdens we must bear.
Oh! you whose feet walk in some shadowed by-way, / Far from the scenes of pleasure and delight, / Still free to you hangs this suspended highway, / Where heavenly glories dawn upon the sight.
And common paths glow with a grace supernal, / And happiness walks hand in hand with care, / And faith becomes a knowledge fixed, eternal, / For those who often seek the bridge of prayer.