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Poem by Vachel Lindsay


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Look you, I’ll go pray, 
My shame is crying, 
My soul is gray and faint, 
My faith is dying. 
Look you, I’ll go pray — 
”Sweet Mary, make me clean, 
Thou rainstorm of the soul, 
Thou wine from worlds unseen.”



Vachel Lindsay


Vachel Lindsay's other poems:
  1. Sweethearts of the Year
  2. What the Miner in the Desert Said
  3. Sweet Briars of the Stairways
  4. Where Is the Real Non-Resistant
  5. The Strength of the Lonely


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