"_The Rebellious Prayer._"--Can any of your readers inform me whether some
stanzas entitled "The Rebellious Prayer" have ever yet appeared in print,
and, if so, in what collection of poems they are to be met with? The
opening lines are as follows:
"It was a darken'd chamber, where was heard
The whisper'd voice, hush'd step, and stifled sounds
Which herald the deep quietness of death," &c.
They describe the anxious watchings of a wife at the sick couch of her
husband. In her agony she prays that his life may be spared, at whatever
cost: her prayer is granted, and her husband is restored, but bereft of
reason.