A Prayer 
By Henry Wadsworth Long Fellow  

Interceding 
With these bleeding 
Wounds upon Thy hands and side, 
For all who have lived and erred 
Thou hast suffered, Thou hast died, 
Scourged, and mocked, and crucified, 
And in the grave hast Thou been buried!

If my feeble prayer can reach Thee, 
O my Saviour, I beseech Thee, 
Even as Thou hast died for me, 
More sincerely 
Let me follow where Thou leadest, 
Let me, bleeding as Thou bleedest, 
Die, if dying I may give 
Life to one who asks to live, 
And more nearly, 
Dying thus, resemble Thee!