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by Unknown

“For me—my muscles are as steel,

For me let hap what may:

I might make shift upon the keel

Until the break o’ day.

“But he, he is so weak and small,

So young, scarce learned to stand—

O pitying Father of us all,

I trust him in thy hand!

“For Thou, who markest from on high

A sparrow’s fall—each one!—