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The Child Jesus.
Luke 2:27.
Hail, gracious, heavenly Prince!
To thee let children fly:
And on thy kindest providence,
O may we all rely.
2 Jesus will take the young
Beneath his special care;
And he will keep their youthful days
From every woe and snare.
3 He knows their tender frame,
Nor will their youth contemn;
For he a little child became,
To love and pity them.
4 Nor does he now forget
His youthful days on earth:
Nor would we ever cease our praise
For the Redeemer’s birth.