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We are willing; we are ready;

We would learn if you would teach; We have hearts that yearn towards duty; We have minds alive to beauty;

Souls that any heights can reach.

We shall be what you will make us: -
Make us wise, and make us good;

Make us strong for time of trial;
Teach us temperance, self-denial,

Patience, kindness, fortitude.

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THE CHILDREN'S APPEAL.

Look into our childish faces;
See you not our willing hearts?
Only love us only lead us;
Only let us know you need us,

And we all will do our parts.

Train us; try us; days slide onward,
They can ne'er be ours again :
Save us; save from our undoing ;
Save from ignorance and ruin;
Free us all from wrong and stain.

We

Send us to our loving mothers,
Angel-stamped in heart and brow.
may be our fathers' teachers;
We may be the mightiest preachers,
In the day that dawneth now.

Such the children's mute appealing.

my

All inmost soul was stirred,
And my heart was bowed with sadness,
When a cry, like summer's gladness,

Said, "The children's prayer is heard!"

MARY HOWITT.

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