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This is another poem I did not write. It's a poem i like though.

To thee, oh my master, I offer my prayer.


My life and health I give to your safekeeping
From you I ask food and water
Shelter in winter and summer
A kind hand and a quiet voice

Do not use whip unfairly
Or spur and hit me cruelly
But give me the understanding
To do your will

Thus will I serve You cheerfully
On the long trail and in battle
In the race and over big fences
So shall we enjoy our time on earth together

Enjoy the wind on the hill
The shadows on the grassland
The shelter of the trees
And the warmth of the sun

Let us know together that companionship
That a horse may give to his master
And enjoy in his life
God's earth and the fullness thereof

And when I am old
And have served you well
Pray, oh my master,
do not sell me to slavery and to a cruel end

But send me to my rest with tenderness and kindness
And my gratitude will be your reward
This I ask in the name of Him