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A Childlike Faith

Tune: North Coates

(\'O my Saviour, lifted\')

Psalm 131

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Lord, my heart not haughty

Not proud, boasting, see

And my eyes not lofty

Unconceited be

 

I not exercise me

Nor my concern be

In great matters that are

Too high or too far

 

Nor things [of] difficulty

Nor [of] profundity

But have behaved, quieted

My soul, by you balmed

 

It like a child who weaned

Of its mother, gleaned

Calm and peace, so hope sure

In the Lord e\'ermore