Grant us, in Thee, all pride to self-abase!
O suff’ring Babe, so blissful in Thy woe,
A self-denying joy, on us, bestow!
The God-Man.
“Would I might be as God!” the first man cried,
When, with forbidden fruits, Sin’s reign began.—
Lo! to repair the ruin wrought by Pride,
Christ, in the manger, we behold as Man!