WHAT ELSIE SAID.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 October 1925, Page 20

WHAT ELSIE SAID.

I’d like to be. the tiny flower, That in our garden grows Or like the littlest fly with wings, That settles on a rose. For the great God whoso hand has put The bright sun up so high Cares every minute for their life— The plant, the rose, the fly. I’d be one little drop of dew Upon a blade of grass, Or green bud growing on a bush Through which the sunbeams pass. I’d be a little bird that sings Upon the apple tree, Or butterfly with spotted wings, Or humming, busy bee. I am a very little thing, Yet dad and mother say God thinks about me all the time, Through both the night and day. He made me, too, and always loves, I think, to hear me sing; He listens to my childish cries Or when my praise I bring. For Jesus was a child like me, On whom His mother smiled; I’d like to grow up just like Him, Jesus so meek and mild. Then God Who made the bright blue sky And all the world beside, Will keep me every day that comes, Whatever may betide. —Copied by Mary Lindsay.