There's a lesson you may learn When the little children turn Squarely, fairly, in their pew, And as squarely gaze at you. Sweet their eyes are, sweet and pure, Modest also and demure, Happy, innocent, sincere, Gazing with no thought of fear. Should the older people thus Turn about and look at us, Would their gaze as steady be, Truthful, brave, and folly free? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANNIVERSARY [ANNIVERSARIE] by JOHN DONNE A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE] by GEORGE HERBERT IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO by MARY ASTELL THE FLIGHT OF THE WAR-EAGLE by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER PICKEN O' SCROFF by WILLIAM BARNES IT IS FINISHED by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR |