CHORAL HYMN.
STROPHE I.
Give ear to our prayer, we implore thee,
Thou son, and the mother that bore thee—
The calf and the heifer divine![f5]
From afar be thine offspring’s avenger,
Even thou, once a beautiful ranger
O’er these meads with the grass-cropping kine!
And thou, whom she bore to her honor,
When the breath of the Highest was on her,
And the touch of the finger divine;