Prayer before Birth

...I am not yet born, rehearse me,
From the sins that the world shall commit, my words
when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,
my treason engendered by traitors beyond me,
my life when they muder by means of my
hands, my death when they live me.
(...)
I am not yet born; Oh hear me
Let no men who is beast or who thinks he is God
come near me.

Louis MacNeice