[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The beautiful lines on prayer appearing in last week's Spectator brought to my recollection Hartley Coleridge's once well-known verses, which I think are now being forgotten :- " Be not afraid to pray—to pray is right. Pray if thou cant with hope ; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay ; Pray in the darkness if there be no light.
Far is the time remote from human eight, When war and tumult on the earth shall cease ; Yet every prayer for universal peace Avails the blessed time to expedite.
Whate'er is good to wish ask that of Heaven, Though it be what thou cant not hope to see ; Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the Spirit so on earth to be.
And if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away."
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