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CONTENTS

THE ANNUNCIATION

THE VISITATION

THE NATIVITY

THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE.

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

THE FINDING IN THE TEMPLE

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✓ Title Page

✔'At evening in her garden close'

✓'Hail full of grace.'

Magnificat anima mea Dominum.'

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BY PATTEN WILSON

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✓ 'Take Mother and Child, and ride in haste'

✔'Give me thy son, I will him bathe'.

Christ and the Doctors

Before I tell of Thee, God's Son,

And all the sweet salvation

That Thy birth brought to labouring men, Make me Thy little child again.

Bid me put off the years, and be
Once more in meek humility
Thy little one and wondering-eyed.
Give me their faith who stood beside
The manger that Thy cradle was ;
Vision of oxen and of ass
To see Thee curled on Mary's knee.
Yea, give me their humility.
Give me the quiet heart in breast,
And pure eye of the kindly beast
That gave its meal to be Thy bed,
And so was greatly honoured.
Ere I behold Thy mysteries
Force Thou my soul upon her knees.