the prayer of the little ducks

 

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Dear God,
give us a flood of water.
 

Let it rain tomorrow and always.
 

Give us plenty of little slugs
and other luscious things to eat.
 

Protect all folk who quack
and everyone who knows how to swim.
 

Amen.

—Carmen De Gasztold

Prayers from the Ark trans. by R. Godden

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