“GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." DAY by day the manna fell; Day by day the promise reads, Thou my daily task shalt give: Not my own-my Father's will. CONDER. KINDNESS TO GOD'S CREATURES. TURN, turn thy hasty foot aside, The common Lord of all that move, KIND WORDS. The light, the air, the dew, He made And spreads o'er earth the grassy blade Let them enjoy their little day, Their lowly bliss receive: Oh do not lightly take away GISBORNE. 79 KIND WORDS. A LITTLE Word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, May heal a spirit broken, And make a friend sincere. A word, or look, has crushed to earth Which, had a smile but owned its birth, Then deem it not an idle thing A kindly word to speak; The face you wear, the smiles you bring, BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER. Be kind to one another: This is a world of care; And there's enough of needful woe That weighs another down, Be kind to one another; Scatter the seeds of love Than aught beneath the sun, Be kind to one another; Not to the good alone, E'en to the cold and selfish heart, A. L. WESTCOMBE. EVERY rounded hawthorn spray Shines with sunny tufts of May,And the child was bright as they. Now there is a silent gloom, 82 FUNERAL OF A CHILD IN SPRING. With a solemn, wondering air, Their strange and mournful burden there. And they think, as they go on, How like some young flow'r she shone, And they wonder if the dead If the spirit, sailing near, If upon her sunny wings Oh! it is a solemn scene Thus to part from what hath been Other children play around, And the air is full of sound, And the earth with light is crown'd. Yet the little mourners stand Round the grave, a weeping band, And share their sorrows, hand in hand. |