LYRA INNOCENTIUM.

LYRA

INNOCENTIUM:

THOUGHTS IN VERSE

ON

CHRISTIAN CHILDREN,

THEIR WAYS, AND THEIR PRIVILEGES.

"JESUS called a little child unto Him, and set him in the midst of them."

"O dearest, dearest Boy! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn,

Could I but teach the hundredth part

Of what from thee I learn."

Wordsworth.

II. CRADLE SONGS. 1. The First Smile

2. Children like Parents

3. The Lullaby

4. Sleeping on the Waters

5. First Waking

6. Looking Westward

7. Upward Gazing

8. Children's Thankfulness

9. Children with Dumb Creatures 49

10. Lifting up to the Cross

11. Sickness in the Cradle

12. Anticipation and Retrospec-

tion

13. Judas's Infancy

14. The Saint's Infancy

15. The Cradle Guarded

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