The same reward is for both prepared.

I came; I sought you—and you know how

I found you out in the square just now!

At which—may the Lord forgive my pride!—

At first I was poorly satisfied.

But now I have heard your story through—

What you in a single night could do!—

And know that this to the Lord appears

Worth all my service of forty years;

I can but wonder, and thank His grace

Which raised us both to an equal place,"

"But, Father, it never can be true!

What?—I by the side of a saint like you?

Ah no! You never to me were sent.

'T was some one else whom the angel meant!"

"No! Listen to me—'T was 

, my son!

Our Master said that a service done

To a child of His in time of need

Is done to Himself in very deed,

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