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A Song Of Low Degree

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Lord, I am small, and yet so great,     The whole world stands to my estate,     And in Thine Image I create.     The sea is mine; and the broad sky     Is mine in its immensity:     The river and the river's gold;     The earth's hid treasures manifold;     The love of creatures small and great,     Save where I reap a precious hate;     The noon-tide sun with hot caress,     The night with quiet loneliness;     The wind that bends the pliant trees,     The whisper of the summer breeze;     The kiss of snow and rain; the star     That shines a greeting from afar;     All, all are mine; and yet so small     Am I, that lo, I needs must call,     Great King, upon the Babe in Thee,     And crave that Thou would'st give to me     The grace of Thy humility.

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"Lord, I am small, and yet so great,..."

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