Look You Ill Go Pray

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Look You Ill Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay

 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."

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