II.

A child he was, and had not learned to speak,

That with his word the world before did make:

His mother's arms him bore, he was so weak,

That with one hand the vaults of heaven could shake.

See how small room my infant Lord doth take,

Whom all the world is not enough to hold.

Who of his years, or of his age hath told?

Never such age so young, never a child so old.

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