Beggars

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CHILD with the hungry eyes,
  The pallid mouth and brow,
And the lifted, asking hands,
  I am more starved than thou.

I beg not on the street;  
  But where the sinner stands,
In secret place, I beg
  Of God, with outstretched hands.

As thou hast asked of me,
Raising thy downcast head,  
So have I asked of Him,
  So trembling, have I plead.

Take this and go thy way;
  Thy hunger shall soon cease.
Thou prayest but for bread,  
  And I, alas! for peace.

© Ella Higginson