Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: II. For Children | | A Little Child’s Hymn | | Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) |
| | For Night and Morning
THOU that once, on mother’s knee, | |
| Wast a little one like me, | |
| When I wake or go to bed | |
| Lay thy hands about my head: | |
| Let me feel thee very near, | 5 |
| Jesus Christ, our Saviour dear. | |
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| Be beside me in the light, | |
| Close by me through all the night; | |
| Make me gentle, kind, and true, | |
| Do what mother bids me do; | 10 |
| Help and cheer me when I fret, | |
| And forgive when I forget. | |
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| Once wast thou in cradle laid, | |
| Baby bright in manger-shade, | |
| With the oxen and the cows, | 15 |
| And the lambs outside the house: | |
| Now thou art above the sky: | |
| Canst thou hear a baby cry? | |
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| Thou art nearer when we pray, | |
| Since thou art so far away; | 20 |
| Thou my little hymn wilt hear, | |
| Jesus Christ, our Saviour dear, | |
| Thou that once, on mother’s knee, | |
| Wast a little one like me. | | | | |
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