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I: Gracious Lord, our children see!
But shall these, alas! remain / Subjects still of Satan's reign?
Isr'el's young ones, when of old / Pharaoh threaten'd to withhold, / Then thy messenger said, "No --
Let the children also go."
II: When the angel of the Lord, / Drawing forth his dreadful sword, / Slew, with an avenging hand, / All the first-born of the land.
Then thy people's door he pass'd, / Where the bloody sign was placed.
Hear us now upon our knees, / Plead the blood of Christ for these!
III: Lord, we tremble, for we know / How the fierce malicious foe, / Wheeling round his watchful flight, / Keeps them ever in his sight.
Spread thy pinions, King of kings!
Hide them safe beneath thy wings, / Lest the ravenous bird of prey / Stoop, and bear the brood away.