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HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 5, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lord became a servant
Last Line: His 'peace be unto you.'
Subject(s): Harvest; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Labor & Laborers; Love; Peace; Work; Workers


OUR LORD became a servant
Among the poor and sad:
He toiled in weary patience
With all the strength He had.

With hate and with reviling
His service was repaid,
And all our heaviest burdens
Were on His shoulders laid.

He spent His life in service,
Rejected, scorned, defied;
And then, to save the thankless,
In loving service died.

If we despise true service,
Or do not serve in turn,
We grieve His Holy Spirit,
It is Himself we spurn.

Rich harvests some are reaping,
Which He, the Servant, sowed,
And we may help the gleaners
To bear their homeward load.

Here in the world's wide corn-field,
If honest work we do,
Will come, in Love's own accents,
His 'Peace be unto you.'





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