N0 evangelist’s golden pen 
     
    

    
     Wrote them for us— 
     
    

    
     The words of the Master to those he might meet 
     
     By the carpenter’s bench or in Nazareth street—— 
     
     But in them I think there well might be— 
     
    

    
     It is surely sweet to fancy thus— 
     
    

    
     All of the benediction for men 
     
    

    
     All of the tender humanity, 
     
    

    
     That leaven the words of his later age 
     
    

    
     On the holy page. 
     
    
   
   
    
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