Page 128 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

READING LESSONS. 127
3. They say the little birds of song,
That charm the plain, to thee belong; The soul in in nt hearts, like mine, That know and worship thee, is thine.
4. They say 'tis thou that makest ir
The ower that scents the summer air; The uits that teem in autumn's hour, Come om thy goodness and thy power.
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5. Thy bounty spreads a rich 1·epast,
Where'er their lot of li be cast, For all invited to the ast,
Alike the greatest and the least.
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6. 0 God! my lisping lips proclaim
That word the angels fear to name;
.An in nt even his voice may raise .Among the choirs that hymn thy praise.
7. They say the sounds are ever dear, That in ncy breathes to his ear;
His love the precious recompense Of its unconscious innocence.
8. They say that nought beneath the skies, Like to its prayer be re him rise;
That round him angels hover near, And we are like the angels here !
9. h ! since he hears, so r away,
The words that we so weakly say:
I pray his mercy would bestow On all that need it here below.
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