There’s ma­ny a poor lit­tle boy,
Whose fa­ther and mo­ther are dead,
Whose heart is a strang­er to joy,
No home save a ho­vel or shed.

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We care not how poor or rich he may be,
Go bring him in, sal­va­tion is free;
His soul is a jew­el, whose light by and by,
May shine in your crown, like a star in the sky.

Go out in the hedg­es and find,
For Je­sus has given the rule,
The halt and the maimed and the blind,
Go bring them all in­to the school.

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Go, bear­ing the en­sign of love,
Its glories for­ev­er un­furled,
Recruit for the ar­my above,
Your war­rant em­brac­es the world.

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