Various, Devotional Poetry for the Children…
“ The heart must bring its sacrifice: Teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. To whom shall we, Thy children, turn? Teach Thou the lesson we would learn: Teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. To Thee, alone, our hearts look up: Prayer is our only door of hope ”
Various, Devotional Poetry for the Children…
“ And they shut their crimson petals from the kisses of the sun; Teaching every day their lesson to my weary, panting soul, To be faithful in well doing, stretching upward for the goal, Sending out the climbing tendrils, trusting God for strength and power, [Pg 025] To support, and aid, and comfort, in the trying day and hour. Ne’er spurn the thing that’s common, nor call homely flowers poor, Each hath a holy mission, like my Glory o’er the door. HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SETTING SUN. How beautiful the setting sun! ”
Various, Devotional Poetry for the Children…
“ That sing about your door, Soon as the joyous spring has come, And chilling storms are o’er. The little birds!—how sweet they sing! Oh! let them joyous live; And do not seek to take the life Which you can never give. Don’t kill the birds!—the pretty birds, That play among the trees! ’Twould make the earth a cheerless place, Should we dispense with these. ”
