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And asked an understanding heart,—
The wisdom he should need
To guide the people, and that God
Would be his friend indeed.
They knew that God approv'd his choice,
And gave him such a name,
For wisdom and integrity,
That all would hear his fame.
One day a mother came to him,
To claim an only son,
An infant only nine days old,
And thus in tears begun:—
"My lord, O king, behold and see,
This woman by my side!
She had a son the age of mine,
But in the night he died.
"No one was with us in the house,
So she was not afraid
To place her dead child, while I slept,
Where my dear boy was laid.
"And when I woke, at early dawn,
To nurse my little son,
I thought my darling dead, but soon
I saw what she had done."
