1914
Prayer of a Tired Child (op. 75, no. 4)
Composed by 
Amy Marcy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach Text by 
Abbie Farwell Brown
Abbie Farwell Brown "Prayer of a Tired Child" is the fourth song of Beach's Four Songs, op 75. This cycle sets texts written for children by American writers Abbie Farwell Brown and Oliver Herford, as well as British writer William Brighty Rands.
Text
Prayer of a Tired Child
by Abbie Farwell Brown
Our Father, hear a tirèd child
Who has forgot her prayer,
And cannot find the words of it,
Which wander ev’rywhere.
You used to carry in your arms
The lambkins dumb and white,
Who had grown weary of their play,
And stumbled in the night.
I also am your little lamb,
Who has no word to pray.
Dear Father, will you bear me too
Along the darkling way?
Sheet Music
Four Songs, Op. 75
Amy Beach
The Candy Lion (op. 75, no. 1)
A Thanksgiving Fable (op. 75, no. 2)
Prayer of a Tired Child (op. 75, no. 4)
A Thanksgiving Fable (op. 75, no. 2)
Prayer of a Tired Child (op. 75, no. 4)