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CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN.
"Suffer little children to come unto me—for of such is the kingdom of heaven."Matthew xix. 14.
If ever in the human heart
A fitting season there can be,
Worthy of its immortal part,
Worthy, O blessed Lord, of thee;
'Tis in that yet unsullied hour,
Or ere the world has claimed its own;
Pure as the hues within the flower,
To summer and the sun unknown;
When still the youthful spirit bears
The image of its God within,
And uneffaced that beauty wears,
So soon to be destroyed by sin.
