• I prayed, at first, a little Girl,

    I prayed, at first, a little Girl,

    Because they told me to —

    But stopped, when qualified to guess

    How prayer would feel — to me —


    If I believed God looked around,

    Each time my Childish eye

    Fixed full, and steady, on his own

    In Childish honesty —


    And told him what I'd...

  • Of Course — I prayed —

    Of Course — I prayed —

    And did God Care?

    He cared as much as on the Air

    A Bird — had stamped her foot —

    And cried "Give Me" —

    My Reason — Life —

    I had not had — but for Yourself —

    'Twere better Charity

    To leave me in the Atom's Tomb —

    Merry, and Nought, and gay, and...