GOD AND A CHILD
J Sometimes 1 say my prayers lo the God of the creeping things, } ♦ All the queer little ugly ones born without wings— J « Slugs and snails and spiders, toads and hoppers and newts: I ■| He'll look after a child if he finds time for the littlest brutes. } • And. sometimes I say them twice lo ihe God who dreams I I About the singing rivers and quiet pools and ihe scurrying ( } streams I !- Where the shining pebbles are, and the warm while sands . ,■ . I [ , And He touches you in the ferns with cool green hands. I i But at night, when the Small Ones sleep in all the lands, { •{ And the earth is drowsy, I drop my head on my hands- j I Lift my'thoughts to thy sky and the stars, and the blue, blue i afj» ' • | And pray most quietly, for God will be there. { J ■ - "' —Betty Knell. |
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20
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152GOD AND A CHILD Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20
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