Only a Little Baby Girl

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1905

ONLY a little baby girl, Dead by the riverside; Only a little Chinese child, Drowned in the floating tide.

If she had only been a boy, They would have heard her cry; But she was just a baby girl, And she was left to die.

So they have left her little form Floating upon the wave. She was too young to have a soul, Why should she have a grave?

Yes, and there's many another lamb Perishing every day, Thrown by the road, or the riverside, Flung to the beasts of prey.

Think, as you lie on your little bed, Smoothed by a mother's hand, Think of the little baby girls Over in China's land.

Ask if there is not something more Even a child can do, And if perhaps in China's land Jesus has need of you.