She said that I must come to her- LOVE ONE ANOTHER. A LITTLE girl with happy look, Sat slowly reading a ponderous book, All bound with velvet, and edged with gold, And its weight was more than the child could hold; Yet dearly she loved to ponder it o'er, And every day she prized it more, For it said, as she looked at her dear little brother, It said "Little children must love one another." She thought it was beautiful in that book, 85 THE CHILD OF GOD. So mamma, I'll be kind to my darling brother, I'm sorry he 's naughty, and will not pray, The little girl did as the Bible taught, And pleasant indeed was the change it wrought, THE CHILD OF GOD. QUIET, LORD, my froward heart, What Thou shalt to-day provide, Let me as a child receive; As a little child relies On a care beyond its own; Let me thus with Thee abide, As my Father, Guard, and Guide. NEWTON. TO MY MOTHER. To guard my youthful couch from woe It is my mother-and with her MISS DAVIDSON. |