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Jesus, He loves one and all, / Jesus, He loves children small, / Their souls are waiting round His feet / On high, before His mercy-seat.
While He wandered here below / Children small to Him did go, / At His feet they knelt and prayed, / On their heads His hands He laid.
Came a Spirit on them then, / Better than of mighty men, / A Spirit faithful, pure and mild, / A Spirit fit for king and child.
Oh! that Spirit give to me, / Jesu Lord, where'er I be!
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