INNOCENCE.
BY RUFUS DAWES.
I.
AAninfant child had passed away,Where angels live and love,—His heavenly Father wanted him,And took him home above;And happy was the child to findA garden full of bowers,Where many other children too,Were playing with the flowers.II.The lambs were skipping on the green,The trees were full of birds,And fruit hung down deliciously,Above the grazing herds;While music from a thousand throatsCame warbling through the air,And fragrance such as angels love,Blew from the flowrets fair.III.Oh! what a lovely sight was thatThe little cherub saw,And how it longed to frolic too,And wear the dress they wore;For wreaths of flowers, like dazzling gold,And silver shining white,Hung o’er their breasts and on their arms,So beautiful and bright.IV.Just then an angel, fair to see,And shining like the sun,Came smiling with a mother’s smile,And blessed the little one;While in her arms she took the child,And kissed it o’er and o’er,And bade it play among the rest,In joy for evermore.V.Away it ran with mirthful glee,To join the little band,That round about soon gathered fast,And clasped their brother’s hand;Then crowning him with pretty flowers,They laughed with joy intense,Because their hearts had felt no sin,And all was Innocence.
AAninfant child had passed away,Where angels live and love,—His heavenly Father wanted him,And took him home above;And happy was the child to findA garden full of bowers,Where many other children too,Were playing with the flowers.II.The lambs were skipping on the green,The trees were full of birds,And fruit hung down deliciously,Above the grazing herds;While music from a thousand throatsCame warbling through the air,And fragrance such as angels love,Blew from the flowrets fair.III.Oh! what a lovely sight was thatThe little cherub saw,And how it longed to frolic too,And wear the dress they wore;For wreaths of flowers, like dazzling gold,And silver shining white,Hung o’er their breasts and on their arms,So beautiful and bright.IV.Just then an angel, fair to see,And shining like the sun,Came smiling with a mother’s smile,And blessed the little one;While in her arms she took the child,And kissed it o’er and o’er,And bade it play among the rest,In joy for evermore.V.Away it ran with mirthful glee,To join the little band,That round about soon gathered fast,And clasped their brother’s hand;Then crowning him with pretty flowers,They laughed with joy intense,Because their hearts had felt no sin,And all was Innocence.
AAninfant child had passed away,Where angels live and love,—His heavenly Father wanted him,And took him home above;And happy was the child to findA garden full of bowers,Where many other children too,Were playing with the flowers.
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Aninfant child had passed away,
Where angels live and love,—
His heavenly Father wanted him,
And took him home above;
And happy was the child to find
A garden full of bowers,
Where many other children too,
Were playing with the flowers.
II.
The lambs were skipping on the green,The trees were full of birds,And fruit hung down deliciously,Above the grazing herds;While music from a thousand throatsCame warbling through the air,And fragrance such as angels love,Blew from the flowrets fair.
The lambs were skipping on the green,
The trees were full of birds,
And fruit hung down deliciously,
Above the grazing herds;
While music from a thousand throats
Came warbling through the air,
And fragrance such as angels love,
Blew from the flowrets fair.
III.
Oh! what a lovely sight was thatThe little cherub saw,And how it longed to frolic too,And wear the dress they wore;For wreaths of flowers, like dazzling gold,And silver shining white,Hung o’er their breasts and on their arms,So beautiful and bright.
Oh! what a lovely sight was that
The little cherub saw,
And how it longed to frolic too,
And wear the dress they wore;
For wreaths of flowers, like dazzling gold,
And silver shining white,
Hung o’er their breasts and on their arms,
So beautiful and bright.
IV.
Just then an angel, fair to see,And shining like the sun,Came smiling with a mother’s smile,And blessed the little one;While in her arms she took the child,And kissed it o’er and o’er,And bade it play among the rest,In joy for evermore.
Just then an angel, fair to see,
And shining like the sun,
Came smiling with a mother’s smile,
And blessed the little one;
While in her arms she took the child,
And kissed it o’er and o’er,
And bade it play among the rest,
In joy for evermore.
V.
Away it ran with mirthful glee,To join the little band,That round about soon gathered fast,And clasped their brother’s hand;Then crowning him with pretty flowers,They laughed with joy intense,Because their hearts had felt no sin,And all was Innocence.
Away it ran with mirthful glee,
To join the little band,
That round about soon gathered fast,
And clasped their brother’s hand;
Then crowning him with pretty flowers,
They laughed with joy intense,
Because their hearts had felt no sin,
And all was Innocence.