With the Babe in her arms, my God!

Her sinless arms in my sinful arms

Place the Babe, my God;

“He has come to take thy sins away;”

Break, O heart, for thy God!

THE TOYS

By Coventry Patmore

My little son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes

And mov’d and spoke in quiet grown-up wise,

Having my law the seventh time disobey’d,