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  • God grant me grace my prayers to say:
    O God! preserve my mother dear,
    In strength and health for many a year;
    And O! preserve my father too,
    And may I pay him reverence due;
    And may I my best thoughts employ
    To be my parents' hope and joy;
    And O! preserve my brothers both
    From evil doings, and from sloth,
    And may we always love each other,
    Our friends, our father, and our mother,
    And still, O Lord, to me impart
    An innocent and grateful heart,
    That after my last sleep I may
    Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”