Prayer [Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide]

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Title:     Prayer [Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide]
Author: James Elroy Flecker [More Titles by Flecker]

Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide
Along the sombre city of our rage,
Or why the sons of men are heavy-eyed.

Let me not know, except from printed page,
The pain of litter love, of baffled pride,
Or sickness shadowing with a long presage.

Let me not know, since happy some have died
Quickly in youth or quietly in age,
How faint, how loud the bravest hearts have cried.

[The end]
James Elroy Flecker's poem: Prayer [Let me not know how sins and sorrows glide]

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