Tune: St Francis Xavier
(\'My God, I love thee, not because\')
Luke 14 v.7-11
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Choose not highest place when invite
You receive with delight
To wedding or some noble feast
Take then place which is least
For if in pride or selfishness
You think of others less
Than you in your self-importance
Your end shall be low stance
For host shall come and say to you
This other man do view
He more honourable than you
So take low place, please do
Then shame, embarrassment you know
For you set yourself so
In a high place, now you are seen
By all as a \'has-been\'!
If taking low place, host shall say
Friend, go higher this day
Then worship, glory, it shall be
Accounted to you, see
For others there shall recognise
Your honesty, no lies
Your humility, exalted
Now you be, at feast fed