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front of us any painful duty; strengthen us with the grace of 

courage; if any act of mercy; teach us tenderness and patience。







ANOTHER IN TIME OF RAIN







LORD; Thou sendest down rain upon the uncounted millions of the 

forest; and givest the trees to drink exceedingly。  We are here 

upon this isle a few handfuls of men; and how many myriads upon 

myriads of stalwart trees!  Teach us the lesson of the trees。  The 

sea around us; which this rain recruits; teems with the race of 

fish; teach us; Lord; the meaning of the fishes。  Let us see 

ourselves for what we are; one out of the countless number of the 

clans of thy handiwork。  When we would despair; let us remember 

that these also please and serve Thee。







BEFORE A TEMPORARY SEPARATION







TO…DAY we go forth separate; some of us to pleasure; some of us to 

worship; some upon duty。  Go with us; our guide and angel; hold 

Thou before us in our divided paths the mark of our low calling; 

still to be true to what small best we can attain to。  Help us in 

that; our maker; the dispenser of events … Thou; of the vast 

designs; in which we blindly labour; suffer us to be so far 

constant to ourselves and our beloved。







FOR FRIENDS







FOR our absent loved ones we implore thy loving…kindness。  Keep 

them in life; keep them in growing honour; and for us; grant that 

we remain worthy of their love。  For Christ's sake; let not our 

beloved blush for us; nor we for them。  Grant us but that; and 

grant us courage to endure lesser ills unshaken; and to accept 

death; loss; and disappointment as it were straws upon the tide of 

life。







FOR THE FAMILY







AID us; if it be thy will; in our concerns。  Have mercy on this 

land and innocent people。  Help them who this day contend in 

disappointment with their frailties。  Bless our family; bless our 

forest house; bless our island helpers。  Thou who hast made for us 

this place of ease and hope; accept and inflame our gratitude; help 

us to repay; in service one to another; the debt of thine unmerited 

benefits and mercies; so that; when the period of our stewardship 

draws to a conclusion; when the windows begin to be darkened; when 

the bond of the family is to be loosed; there shall be no 

bitterness of remorse in our farewells。



Help us to look back on the long way that Thou hast brought us; on 

the long days in which we have been served; not according to our 

deserts; but our desires; on the pit and the miry clay; the 

blackness of despair; the horror of misconduct; from which our feet 

have been plucked out。  For our sins forgiven or prevented; for our 

shame unpublished; we bless and thank Thee; O God。  Help us yet 

again and ever。  So order events; so strengthen our frailty; as 

that day by day we shall come before Thee with this song of 

gratitude; and in the end we be dismissed with honour。  In their 

weakness and their fear; the vessels of thy handiwork so pray to 

Thee; so praise Thee。  Amen。







SUNDAY







WE beseech Thee; Lord; to behold us with favour; folk of many 

families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof; 

weak men and women subsisting under the covert of thy patience。  Be 

patient still; suffer us yet awhile longer; … with our broken 

purposes of good; with our idle endeavours against evil; suffer us 

awhile longer to endure; and (if it may be) help us to do better。  

Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these 

must be taken; brace us to play the man under affliction。  Be with 

our friends; be with ourselves。  Go with each of us to rest; if any 

awake; temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day 

returns; return to us; our sun and comforter; and call us up with 

morning faces and with morning hearts … eager to labour … eager to 

be happy; if happiness shall be our portion … and if the day be 

marked for sorrow; strong to endure it。



We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of him to whom this 

day is sacred; close our oblation。







FOR SELF…BLAME







LORD; enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye; and 

blind us to the mote that is in our brother's。  Let us feel our 

offences with our hands; make them great and bright before us like 

the sun; make us eat them and drink them for our diet。  Blind us to 

the offences of our beloved; cleanse them from our memories; take 

them out of our mouths for ever。  Let all here before Thee carry 

and measure with the false balances of love; and be in their own 

eyes and in all conjunctures the most guilty。  Help us at the same 

time with the grace of courage; that we be none of us cast down 

when we sit lamenting amid the ruins of our happiness or our 

integrity:  touch us with fire from the altar; that we may be up 

and doing to rebuild our city:  in the name and by the method of 

him in whose words of prayer we now conclude。







FOR SELF…FORGETFULNESS







LORD; the creatures of thy hand; thy disinherited children; come 

before Thee with their incoherent wishes and regrets:  Children we 

are; children we shall be; till our mother the earth hath fed upon 

our bones。  Accept us; correct us; guide us; thy guilty innocents。  

Dry our vain tears; wipe out our vain resentments; help our yet 

vainer efforts。  If there be any here; sulking as children will; 

deal with and enlighten him。  Make it day about that person; so 

that he shall see himself and be ashamed。  Make it heaven about 

him; Lord; by the only way to heaven; forgetfulness of self; and 

make it day about his neighbours; so that they shall help; not 

hinder him。







FOR RENEWAL OF JOY







WE are evil; O God; and help us to see it and amend。  We are good; 

and help us to be better。  Look down upon thy servants with a 

patient eye; even as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down; call 

upon the dry bones; quicken; enliven; recreate in us the soul of 

service; the spirit of peace; renew in us the sense of joy。









End of the Project Gutenberg eText Prayers Written at Vailima









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A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Scanned and proofed by David Price; email 

ccx074@coventry。ac。uk











A Lowden Sabbath Morn









I



THE clinkum…clank o' Sabbath bells

Noo to the hoastin' rookery swells;

Noo faintin' laigh in shady dells;

Sounds far an' near;

An' through the simmer kintry tells

Its tale o' cheer。



II



An' noo; to that melodious play;

A deidly awn the quiet sway …

A' ken their solemn holiday;

Bestial an' human;

The singin' lintie on the brae;

The restin' plou'man。



III



He; mair than a' the lave o' men;

His week completit joys to ken;

Half…dressed; he daunders out an' in;

Perplext wi' leisure;

An' his raxt limbs he'll rax again

Wi' painfu' pleesure。



IV



The steerin' mither strang afit

Noo shoos the bairnies but a bit;

Noo cries them ben; their Sinday shuit

To scart upon them;

Or sweeties in their pouch to pit;

Wi' blessin's on them。



V



The lasses; clean frae tap to taes;

Are busked in crunklin' underclaes;

The gartened hose; the weel…filled stays;

The nakit shift;

A' bleached on bonny greens for days;

An' white's the drift。



VI



An' noo to face the kirkward mile

The guidman's hat o' dacent style;

The blackit shoon; we noon maun fyle

As white's the miller:

A waefu' peety tae; to spile

The warth o' siller。



VII



Our Marg'et; aye sae keen to crack;

Douce…stappin' in the stoury track;

Her emeralt goun a' kiltit back

Frae snawy coats;

White…ankled; leads the kirkward pack

Wi' Dauvit Groats。



VIII



A thocht ahint; in runkled breeks;

A' spiled wi' lyin' by for weeks;

The guidman follows closs; an' cleiks

The sonsie misses;

His sarious face at aince bespeaks

The day that this is。



IX



And aye an' while we nearer draw

To whaur the kirkton lies alaw;

Mair neebours; comin' saft an' slaw

Frae here an' there;

The thicker thrang the gate; an' caw

The stour in air。



X



But hark! the bells frae nearer clang

To rowst the slaw; their sides they bang

An' see! black coats a'ready thrang

The green kirkyaird;

And at the yett; the chestnuts spang

That brocht the laird。



XI



The solemn elders at the plate

Stand drinkin' deep the pride o' state:

The practised hands as gash an' great

As Lords o' Session;

The later named; a wee thing blate

In their expression。



XII



The prentit stanes that mark the deid;

Wi' lengthened lip; the sarious read;

Syne way a moraleesin' heid;

An then an' there

Their hirplin' practice an' their creed

Try hard to square。



XIII



It's here our Merren lang has lain;

A wee bewast the table…stane;

An' yon's the grave o' Sandy Blane;

An' further ower;

The mither's brithers; dacent men!

Lie a' the fower。



XIV



Here the guidman sall bide awee

To dwall amang the deid; to see

Auld faces clear in fancy's e'e;

Belike to hear

Auld voices fa'in saft an' slee

On fancy's ear。



XV



Thus; on the day o' solemn things;

The bell that in the steeple swings

To fauld a scaittered faim'ly rings

Its walcome screed;

An' just a wee thing nearer brings

The quick an' deid。



XVI



But noo the bell is ringin' in;

To tak their places; folk begin;

The minister himsel' will shune

Be up the gate;

Filled fu' wi' clavers about sin

An' man's estate。



XVII



The tunes are up … FRENCH; to be shure;

The faithfu' FRENCH; an' twa…three mair;

The auld prezentor; hoastin' sair;

Wales out the portions;

An' yirks the tune into the air

Wi' queer contortions。



XVIII



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