Create in me a heart of steel

that does not flee when arrows fly

that does not yield to sin or bow.

A heart of Garnet, red with bold.

A stubborn heart, that faiths through smart

when winds and doubts assail my hold—

when all my comforts disavow.

A heart that does not why the sky;

a heart of hard and heavenly zeal.

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