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CATHOLIC HYMNS.
35

Chorus.

Babe of Bethlehem, hear our cry!
Thou wert helpless once as we;
Hear the loving Litany
We, Thy children, sing to Thee.

By Thy poor and lowly lot,
By the manger and the grot,
By Thy little feet and hands,
Folded fast in swaddling bands,
Babe of Bethlehem, &c.

By the worship shepherds paid,
By the gifts that sages made,
Gold and myrrh and incense sweet,
Laid in homage at Thy feet,—
Babe of Bethlehem, &c.