| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | A Little Child in the midst | | Arthur Middlemore Morgan |
| | ‘Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’—M ATT. XVIII. 3. |
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FAIR is the grace to be a little child. | |
| Our God has sanctified all ages; He, | |
| Not for twelve years but those long thirty-three, | |
| Dwelt in our world, the Ever-undefiled; | |
| Loving, obedient, gentle, stainless, mild, | 5 |
| Exemplar He alike to sire and boy, | |
| Yet, ere by death the world He reconciled, | |
| He told us childhood was the gate of joy. | |
| They brought young children to His love-fired bosom, | |
| Sin, the divider, bade them go away, | 10 |
| But love, the Child-God, blessed each baby-blossom, | |
| “Now suffer ye,” He said, “My own to stay; | |
| When heav’n to man shall ope its portals fair, | |
| Only My little ones shall enter there.” | | | |
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