You Did Leave Your Throne  

   Emily Elliott in the 19th century was concerned for those who were sick. She, a poet, was sickly herself. She wrote a hymn for children, to teach them about Jesus' birth. Each stanza has a contrast with the word but.

              We provide a few lines, in today's language:

You did leave your throne and your kingly crown...

But in Bethlehem there was found no room.

     Heaven's arches rang when the angels sang...

     But of lowly birth did you come to earth.

The foxes found rest, and the birds their nest...

But your couch was the sod, O Son of God, in the deserts of Galilee.

     You came O Lord with the living Word...

     But with mocking scorn and with crown of thorns, they took you to Calvary.

               And finally,

Let your voice call me home, saying "Yet there is room at My side for you." 

My heart shall rejoice, Lord Jesus, when you come and call for me! 

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,

the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own,

but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those

who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

John 1:10-12