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New Pastoral
I am the homeless child of Bethlehem.
Send shepherds and kings to where I am.
Send wise men too,
there seem so few,
and send the Muslim and the Jew,
the Buddhist and the Hindu too.
Send all, there is so much to do.
For I am truly homeless
and soon I'll be
a refugee
torn from here and forced to flee.
So come to me
and truly give
This homeless child a place to live.
In the silent holy night,
in the flickering candle light of
days quickly turned to years
of hopes, of fears,
this I tell you will be true:
As long as one child homeless be
That child is me.
As long as one child must flee
from war or poverty
That child is you.
That child is me.
And ancient holy Bethlehem
is any time or place I am
Frank Murphy
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