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CHILDRENS' JOYS

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 37.

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CHILDRENS' JOYS.

By Sarah Doudney

The children's world is full of sweet surprises; Our common things are precious in their sight: For them the stars shine, and the morning rises To show new treasures of untold delight:—
A dance of bluebells in the shady places; A crimson flush of sunset in the west; The cobwebs, delicate as fairy laces; The sudden finding of a wood-bird's nest.
Their hearts and lips are full of simple praises To Him who made the earth divinely sweet; They dwell among the buttercups and daisies, And find His blessings strewn about their feet.
But we, worn out by days of toil and sorrow, And sick of pleasures that are false and vain, Would freely give our golden hoards to borrow One little hour of childhood's bliss again.
Yet he who sees their joy, beholds our sadness; And in the wisdom of a Father's love He keeps the secret of the heavenly gladness; Our sweet surprises wait for us above. —Sarah Doudney, in Christian at Work.