Mother and Child by George McDonald

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1905

Mother and Child

By George McDonald

My child is lying on my knees; The signs of heaven she reads; My face is all the heaven she sees, Is all the heaven she needs.

I also am a child, and I Am ignorant and weak; I gaze upon the starry sky, And then I must not speak;

For all behind the starry sky, Behind the world so broad, Behind men's hearts and souls, doth lie The infinite of God.

Lo, Lord, I sit in the wide space, My child upon my knee, She looketh up into my face, And I look up to thee. — George McDonald.