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Behold a little child,

laid in a manger bed;

The wintry blasts blow wild

around His infant head;

But who is this so lowly laid?

'Tis He by Whom the worlds were made.

The hands that all things made

An earthly craft pursue;

Where Joseph plies his trade,

There Jesus labours too,

That weary men in him may rest,

And faithful toil through Him be blest.

Christ, Master carpenter,

We come rough-hewn to Thee;

At last, through wood and nails,

Thou mad’st us whole and free.

In this Thy world remake us, planned

To truer beauty of Thine hand.

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