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THE CHILD
AT NAZARETH
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Once, measuring His height, He stoodBeneath a cypress-tree,
And, leaning back against the wood,
Stretched wide His arms for me;
Whereat a brooding mother-dove
Fled fluttering from her nest above.
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At evening He loved to walkAmong the shadowy hills, and talk
Of Bethlehem;
But if perchance there passed us by
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In silence, long and tenderly;
And when again He'd try to speak,
I've seen the tears upon His cheek.
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