“PRAY!” said a mother to her dying child;
“Pray!” and in token of assent he smiled.
Most willing was the spirit; but so weak
The failing frame, that he could scarcely speak.
At length he cried, “Dear mother, in God’s book
Is it not written, —Unto Jesus look?
I can look up; I have no strength for prayer: ―
‘LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED,’ is there.”