A little child may know
A little child may know. Jane Eliza Leeson* (1807/8-1881).
From Leeson’s Hymns and Scenes of Childhood (1842) where it was entitled ‘God’s Love of Little Children’, in six stanzas:
A little child may know Our Father’s name of love;’Tis written on the earth below, And on the sky above.
Around me when I look His handiwork I see;This world is like a picture book To teach his name to me.
The thousand little flowers Within our garden found,The rainbow and the soft spring showers, And every pleasant sound -
The gentle winds that blow The woods and groves among,The streams that thro’ the valleys flow In melody along -
And every living thing Rejoicing in the light,The little...
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