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These were redeemed from among men being the firstfruits	A
unto God and to the Lamb Rev xiv	B
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Say ye celestial guards who wait	C
In Bethlehem round the Saviour's palace gate	C
Say who are these on golden wings	A
That hover o'er the new born King of kings	A
Their palms and garlands telling plain	D
That they are of the glorious martyr train	D
Next to yourselves ordained to praise	A
His Name and brighten as on Him they gaze	A
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But where their spoils and trophies where	E
The glorious dint a martyr's shield should bear	E
How chance no cheek among them wears	A
The deep worn trace of penitential tears	A
But all is bright and smiling love	B
As if fresh borne from Eden's happy grove	B
They had flown here their King to see	A
Nor ever had been heirs of dark mortality	A
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Ask and some angel will reply	F
These like yourselves were born to sin and die	F
But ere the poison root was grown	G
God set His seal and marked them for His own	G
Baptised its blood for Jesus' sake	H
Now underneath the Cross their bed they make	H
Not to be scared from that sure rest	I
By frightened mother's shriek or warrior's waving crest	I
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Mindful of these the firstfruits sweet	J
Borne by this suffering Church her Lord to greet	J
Blessed Jesus ever loved to trace	A
The innocent brightness of an infant's face	A
He raised them in His holy arms	A
He blessed them from the world and all its harms	A
Heirs though they were of sin and shame	K
He blessed them in his own and in his Father's Name	K
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Then as each fond unconscious child	L
On the everlasting Parent sweetly smiled	L
Like infants sporting on the shore	M
That tremble not at Ocean's boundless roar	M
Were they not present to Thy thought	N
All souls that in their cradles Thou hast bought	O
But chiefly these who died for Thee	A
That Thou might'st live for them a sadder death to see	A
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And next to these Thy gracious word	P
Was as a pledge of benediction stored	Q
For Christian mothers while they moan	G
Their treasured hopes just born baptised and gone	R
Oh joy for Rachel's broken heart	S
She and her babes shall meet no more to part	S
So dear to Christ her pious haste	T
To trust them in His arms for ever safe embraced	T
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She dares not grudge to leave them there	E
Where to behold them was her heart's first prayer	E
She dares not grieve but she must weep	U
As her pale placid martyr sinks to sleep	U
Teaching so well and silently	A
How at the shepherd's call the lamb should die	F
How happier far than life the end	V
Of souls that infant like beneath their burthen bend	V

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