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QUOTATION:The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
My unassisted heart is barren clay,
Which of its native self can nothing feed;
ATTRIBUTION:Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564), Italian artist. For Inspiration (l. 1–4). . .

Treasury of Poems for Worship and Devotion, A. Charles L. Wallis, ed. (1959) Harper & Brothers.
 
 
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