 Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended And became a child...  Light for early days (hymns and verses). - Page iiiby Light - 1861Full view - About this book
 | 354 pages
...And, without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. 3. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven he descended And became a child like thee ! 4. Soft and easy is thy cradle ; Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay ; When his birth-place was a stable,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1874 - 200 pages
...whose figure she thus recollected, — singing in a sweet tone, — " How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He...birthplace was a stable, And His softest bed was hay." The groom recognised this as part of the wellknown cradle hymn, with which the mothers of his native... | |
 | Samuel McAll - Preaching - 1875 - 144 pages
...made for a time lower than themselves. They beheld Him at Bethlehem, a babe wrapt in swathes,— ' When his birth-place was a stable. And his softest bed was hay.' Though surrounding cattle were the chief attendants on the Infant Messiah and his virgin mother ; though,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou 'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven he...birthplace was a stable, And his softest bed was hay. See the kindly shepherds round him, Telling wonders from the sky ! Where they sought him, there they... | |
 | Moravian Church - Hymns, English - 1876 - 786 pages
...without thy care and payment ; All thy wants are well supplied. 3 How much better thou 'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven he descended, And became a child like thee. 4 Soft and easy is thy cradle ; Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay, When his birth-place was a stable,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1877 - 90 pages
...And without thy care, or payment. All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven he...birthplace was a stable, And his softest bed was hay. Blessed Babe ! what glorious features, Spotless, fair, divinely bright ! — • Must he dwell with... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
..., All without thy care or payment All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from Heaven he...birth-place was a stable, And his softest bed was hay. See the kindly shepherds round him, Telling wonders from the sky ! Where they sought him, there they... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1877 - 436 pages
...night, compared with the dreary room in which our Saviour was born. " How much bettor thou'rt attended, Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended, And became a child like thee. The children of poor parents, thoae of wicked parents, and those without parents, have a lonely lot... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...All without thy care or payment ; All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended1 Than the Son of God could be, When from Heaven he...birth-place was a stable, And His softest bed was hay. See the kindly shepherds round him, Telling wonders from the sky ! Where they sought Him, there they... | |
 | John Green - 1878 - 354 pages
...And, without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. 5 How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven he descended And became a child like thee! 4 Soft and easy is thy cradle; Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay; When his birth-place was a stable,... | |
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