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A Christmas Prayer

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Loving looks the large-eyed cow,     Loving stares the long-eared ass     At Heaven's glory in the grass!     Child, with added human birth     Come to bring the child of earth     Glad repentance, tearful mirth,     And a seat beside the hearth     At the Father's knee--     Make us peaceful as thy cow;     Make us patient as thine ass;     Make us quiet as thou art now;     Make us strong as thou wilt be.     Make us always know and see     We are his as well as thou.

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