CHILD BALLAD
Reading edition
Jesus, He loves one and all, Jesus, He loves children small, Their souls are waiting round His feet On high, before His mercy-seat.
While He wandered here below Children small to Him did go, At His feet they knelt and prayed, On their heads His hands He laid.
Came a Spirit on them then, Better than of mighty men, A Spirit faithful, pure and mild, A Spirit fit for king and child.
Oh! that Spirit give to me, Jesu Lord, where’er I be!
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