What’s prayin’? Prayin’s wantin’ things,
And wishin’ we had less or much,
And after people’s prayed for ’em,
They’ve got to go and work for such.
We often pray when we don’t think,
And don’t know who we’re prayin’ to,
Like when we wish a man “good luck,”
That’s prayin’ that he’ll make a “do.”
Some kind of work is all a prayer,
Li’ke diggin’, so it seems to me;
The Scripturs strong on havin’ faith
For bein’ answered’ andily.
So I start out and peg a claim,
I’d never have no heart to sink
And look for gold, excep’ I thought
When I got down to hear it chink.
Jest like a prayer, this sinkin’ holes
And daily lookin’ for the gold;
For “give us day by day our bread,”
Is what we have to ask, we’re told.
We chance the gettin’ what we ask,
And sinkin’ holes is like enough;
We wish for luck-and duffer out,
Or bottom on to payin’ stuff.
Then “keep us from all evil,” that’s
The same as drivin’ on the wash.
Some say if they can strike the run,
The rest is right; but that’s all bosh.
Suppose we strike a mullock-bank,
Or find the gutters poor, or should
The lead go twisting from our
That’s bad-we always want the good.
So sinkin’ holes. I think. is just
Like prayin’ for your daily bread;
And drivin’ on the wash the same
As hopin’ things is good ahead,
And when we’ve sunk. and driv’ our claim.
And cleanin’-ups is goin’ fair.
Then things is go in’ on all right-
We’re gettin’ answers to our prayers!
(Francis William Ophel)
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