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What Man Is There Of You?

    By George MacDonald



    The homely words how often read!
        How seldom fully known!
    "Which father of you, asked for bread,
        Would give his son a stone?"

    How oft has bitter tear been shed,
        And heaved how many a groan,
    Because thou wouldst not give for bread
        The thing that was a stone!

    How oft the child thou wouldst have fed,
        Thy gift away has thrown!
    He prayed, thou heard'st, and gav'st the bread:
        He cried, "It is a stone!"

    Lord, if I ask in doubt and dread
        Lest I be left to moan,
    Am I not he who, asked for bread,
        Would give his son a stone?



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