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"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children", by Florence B. Hyett, [1923],

A Christmas Prayer

Loving looks the large-eyed cow,

Loving stares the long-eared ass

At Heaven's glory in the grass!

Child, with added human birth

Come to bring the child of earth

Glad repentance, tearful mirth,

And a seat beside the hearth

At the Father's knee--

Make us peaceful as thy cow;

Make us patient as thine ass;

Make us quiet as thou art now;

Make us strong as thou wilt be.

Make us always know and see

We are his, as well as thou.

--george MACDONALD