Hail, gracious, heavenly Prince!

To thee let children fly:

And on thy kindest providence,

O may we all rely.

2 Jesus will take the young

Beneath his special care;

And he will keep their youthful days

From every woe and snare.

3 He knows their tender frame,

Nor will their youth contemn;

For he a little child became,

To love and pity them.

4 Nor does he now forget

His youthful days on earth:

Nor would we ever cease our praise

For the Redeemer’s birth.