Poems (Rice)/On the Blank Leaf of a Prayer-book
ON THE BLANK LEAF OF A PRAYER-BOOK.
O TAKE the book, and mayst thou turn Each day to read, to kneel in prayer; Its truths embrace, its precepts learn, That thou, at last, a crown may wear.
A gift I could not bring to thee More precious, on thy wedding-day, Or one more truly dear to me, Than I now on thine altar lay.