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Prayer.(Poem)

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| December 18, 2006 | Creagan, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish upon the table or sweet things, he would be deemed absurd. Yet we ask the Gods for what they do not give, though they have given us so many things.

--Epictetus

 
  Thank you for the universe, the world, 
  for earth and water, fire and fresh air, 
  for ...

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