"Canticle of Prayer" from the Bible

Here, from the King James Bible, is a poem that I have based on the words of the hymn "Canticle of Prayer" that Alan Luff adapted in 1962 from The Revised Standard Version of the Bible. I have quoted the first, third and fifth stanzas from the King James Version of the epistle of Paul to the Romans. The second and fourth stanzas are bits of poetry by Jesus Christ that I have quoted from the King James Version of the Gospel according to Luke.


CANTICLE OF PRAYER
from the Bible, King James Version:
Romans 8:26; Luke 11:9-10

We know not what we should pray for as we ought:
But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
With groanings which cannot be uttered.

Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought:
But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
With groanings which cannot be uttered.

For every one that asketh receiveth;
And he that seeketh findeth;
And to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought:
But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
With groanings which cannot be uttered.