1. Christ is the Alpha of our prayers;
  We know not how to pray
  Save as His Spirit in our hearts
  Shall teach us what to say.
2. Christ is the Omega of our prayer,
  The Father's great Amen
  That rounds our halting periods
  To sense beyond our ken.
3. But in the little space between,
  He let us make the links,
  And with our slow and stammering speech
  Interpret what He thinks.
4. O First and Last, take Thou the prayers
  Of every trusting soul,
  And weld them to Thine own desire
  To make a perfect whole.
5. Thou great Beginning of that Word
  We cannot speak or spell,
  Of the short syllable we lisp
  Be Thou the End as well!