American Poetry
The Lord's Prayer

THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN. Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face, The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace. "Our Father which"-the pronoun there is funny, And shows the scribe to have addressed the money "Which art in Heaven"-an error this, no doubt : The preposition should be stricken out. Needless to quote ; I only have designed To praise the frankness of the pious mind Which thought it natural and right to join, With rare significancy, prayer and coin. A LACKING FACTOR. "You acted unwisely, " I cried, "as you see By the outcome". He calmly eyed me : "When choosing the course of my action, " said he, "I had not the outcome to guide me.