SUNSHINE IN LIFE

POEMS FOR THE KING'S DAUGHTERS

Alexander Pope.
1688-1744.

THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.

Father of all! in every age,
In every clime adored,

By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

Thou great First Cause, least understood,

Who all my sense confined

To know but this, that Thou art good,
And that myself am blind;

Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
To see the good from ill;

And, binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.