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Children’s Songbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I Think When I Read That Sweet Story 

“I Think When I Read That Sweet Story,” Children’s Songbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 56

Lovingly

1. I think when I read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,
How he called little children like lambs to his fold;
I should like to have been with him then.

2. I wish that his hands had been placed on my head,
That his arms had been thrown around me,
That I might have seen his kind look when he said,
“Let the little ones come unto me.”

Words: Jemima Luke, 1813–1906

Music: Leah Ashton Lloyd, 1894–1965

3 Nephi 17:21–23

Luke 18:16

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