主是祷告的阿拉法，祂灵教自我灵；我们不知如何祷告，除非祂在带领。
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.

主是祷告的俄梅嘎，神的最大“阿们”，在我祷告停息之时，发出同感声音。
Christ is the Omega of prayer,
The Father's great Amen
That rounds our halting periods
To sense beyond our ken.

但在首尾两端之间，祂让我们接联，用那不清似吃话语，译出祂所欲言。
But in the little space between
He lets us make the links,
And with our slow and stammering speech
Interpret what He thinks.

哦主，你这首先、末后，使我所有祷告与你心愿完全结合，说出你之所要。
O First and Last, take Thou the prayers
Of every trusting soul,
And weld them to Thine own desire
To make a perfect whole.

我们不能道出之祈，全有你作其始；我们简短不清之祷，其终愿你也是！
Thou great Beginning of that Word
We cannot speak or spell,
Of the short syllable we lisp
Be Thou the End as well!