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Christians, Lo, the Star Appeareth
The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920)
edited by Henry Augustine Smith
I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old
by Jemima Thompson Luke, lyrics by Jemima Thompson Luke, composed by Anonymous
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  1. I think when I read that sweet story of old,
    When Jesus was here among men,
    How he called little children as lambs to his fold,
    I should like to have been with them then.
  2. I wish that his hands had been placed on my head,
    That his arm had been thrown around me,
    And that I might have seen his kind look when he said,
    'Let the little ones come unto me.'
  3. Yet still to his footstool in prayer I may go,
    And ask for a share in his love;
    And if I now earnestly seek him below,
    I shall see him and hear him above.
    A -men.
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