HYMN FOR A LITTLE BOY.
"What, mother, makes it seem to me,
When I am all alone,
As if some one could hear and see,
And all my thoughts were known?
When I am all alone,
As if some one could hear and see,
And all my thoughts were known?
"Sometimes it makes me very glad,
And dance and sing with joy;
Sometimes it makes me very sad,
And frights your little boy.
And dance and sing with joy;
Sometimes it makes me very sad,
And frights your little boy.
"O, tell me, mother, tell me why;
For I have never known,
Why 't is I laugh, or why I cry,
When I am all alone."
For I have never known,
Why 't is I laugh, or why I cry,
When I am all alone."
"My child, you never are alone:
There is a watchful eye,
To which your very thoughts are known:
'Tis God, is ever nigh.
There is a watchful eye,
To which your very thoughts are known:
'Tis God, is ever nigh.
"He made your little heart for joy;
He tunes your happy song:
O, then, my little timid boy,
Fear only doing wrong.
He tunes your happy song:
O, then, my little timid boy,
Fear only doing wrong.
