Often as we watched her there <br />From our lips there fell this prayer, <br />'God, give us the pain to bear! <br />Let us suffer in her place, <br />Take the anguish from her face, <br />Soothe her with Thy holy grace.' <br /> <br />Then the angels came, and they <br />Took her lovely soul away <br />From the torture house of clay. <br />As we'd prayed, they brought release, <br />Smoothed her brow with gentle peace, <br />But our pain shall never cease. <br /> <br />Ours is now the hurt to bear, <br />Ours the anguish and despair, <br />Ours the agony to share! <br />When our hearts with grief were stirred, <br />Thus we prayed and thus were heard, <br />Shall we fail to keep our word?<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-we-prayed/
