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 130 REDEMPTION.

All knowledge in thy presence is as naught;

Our best attainments nothing in thy sight,

For thou alone eternal Wisdom art.

And though in holy Infancy thou hast

The Godhead veil'd, thou yet remain'^t the same,

Th' Almighty Power, whence we, and all proceed ;

In whom we live, sole move, and being have.

Though not of Israel's race, deign, Lord, to look

With favor on thy servants, and give part

In the Redemption, thou hast come to bring.

Remember Abraham, our father; him,

Whose righteousness thou know'st, and whom from out

Our land, of old, thou call'd'st to be the sire

Of this blest race; remember, and accept

For us, his face, who long'd to see thy day,

But who, less bless'd than we, knew not its dawn."

So sought the Magi, and so found ; so ask'd, And of his bounty full received, and grace For grace; with royal gifts prefer their pray'r, And find acceptance in his boundless love. Eight' days the infant Saviour they adore, Worship with vows, and hail his Mother Bless'd; Then go their way rejoicing whence they came; Though, by an angel warn'd, in route diverse, By Bend-Emir, and Syria's fertile fields.

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