If you had been living when Christ was on earth

And had met the Savior kind,

What would you have asked him to do for you,

Supposing you were stone blind?

A child considered and then replied,

I expect that, without a doubt,

I’d ask for a dog, with collar and chain,

To lead me daily about.

And how often thus, in faithless prayer,

We acknowledge with shamed surprise

We have only asked for a dog and chain,

When we might have had--opened eyes."

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