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Dear Lord, to Thee my knee is bent. -- / Give me content -- / Full-pleasured with what comes to me, / What e'er it be: / An humble roof -- a frugal board, / And simple hoard; / The wintry fagot piled beside / The chimney wide, / While the enwreathing flames up-sprout / And twine about / The brazen dogs that guard my hearth / And household worth: / Tinge with the ember's ruddy glow / The rafters low; / And let the sparks snap with delight, / As ringers might / That mark deft measures of some tune / The children croon: / Then, with good friends, the rarest few / Thou holdest true, / Ranged round about the blaze, to share / My comfort there, -- / Give me to claim the service meet / That makes each seat / A place of honor, and each guest / Loved as the rest.