8.8.8.8.

Tune: DE TAR (Calvin Hampton),* BOURBON, DISTRESS

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This dreaming Child sleeps unaware,

still unacquainted with despair;

he nothing knows of desperate prayer

unheard in heaven, no one there.

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When he awakes and as he grows, 

he’ll learn what all the sad world knows:

while kings are lording here below,

injustice rules the poor and low.

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But now he sleeps beneath the wings

of Love alone that healing brings,

and dreams a world of wondrous things

like justice, and the end of kings. 

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So dim the stars’ celestial gleam;

no angel song disturb the scene,

let earth be hushed, still and serene, 

and let him sleep, O let him dream. 

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*See The New Century Hymnal 587 “Through All the World A Hungry Christ”

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgkqeUJpLTE