By grace the little I can give.

Hallelujah!

Thou to be weak dost not disdain,

Dost choose the things the world deems vain,

Art poor and needy, and dost come,

By love impell'd, to want's drear home!

Hallelujah!

Thou sleepest on the lap of earth,

The manger where Thou at Thy birth

Wast laid to rest, the hay, the stall