[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Timothy Kesicki, S.J., Jesuit Conference, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  In the book of Proverbs, chapter 10, we are taught, ``He who gathers 
in summer is a son who acts wisely.'' This wise pursuit from the wisdom 
of Solomon has built our Nation.
  Of this season, the African American poet from Dayton, Ohio, Paul 
Laurence Dunbar, writes:

     Oh, summer has clothed the earth
     In a cloak from the loom of the sun!
     And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue,
     And a belt where the river run.

     O, ye who toil in the town,
     And ye who moil in the mart,
     Hear the artless song, and your faith made strong
     Shall renew your joy of heart.

  The fruits of the Earth from the bounty of our land are all Your 
gift. And we praise You this day, O God, for all who labor for our 
sustenance and those who govern our Nation.
  Amen.

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