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Photograph shows a photograph of Cowboys' Prayer: O Lord, I've never lived where churches grow / I've loved creation better as it stood/ That day you finished it, so long ago,/ And look upon your work and called it good./ Just let let me live my life as I've begun!/ And give me work that's open to the sky / Make me a partner of the wind and sun,/And I won't ask a life that's soft and high./ Make me as big and open as the plains / As honest as the horse between my knees / Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains / Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze./ Just keep an eyes on all that's done and said / Just right me sometime when I turn aside / And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead - / That stretches upward towards the Great Divide./ Author Unknown.
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