POET LAUREATE'S PRAYER
Following is the poem "Prayer for the King's Reign," written by the Poet Laureate, John Masefield, which is included in the official Coronation souvenir programme - O God, the Ruler over Earth and Sea, Grant us Thy guidance in the reign to be; Grant that our King may make this ancient land A realm of brothers, working mind and hand To make the life of man a fairer thing; God grant this living glory to the King. Grant to our Queen the strqrigth that lifts and sharas The daily burden that a monarch bears; Grant to them both Thy holy help to give The hopeiess, hope, the workers, means to live; The light to see, and skill to make us see, Where ways are bad, what better ways may be, And grace, tp give'to working minds the zest To reach excelling things beyond their best. Grant to them peace, and Thy diviner peace, The joy of making human wars to cease; Make wise the councils of the men who sway The Britain here, the Britains far away ; And grant us all, that every rightness willed In this beginning reign may be fulfilled.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4
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194POET LAUREATE'S PRAYER Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4
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