Words of Comfort  

• For a Child

C-301 Hush my dear, be still and slumber: Jolly angels guard your bed     Watts
C-302 The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtue     Cicero
C-303 Children bring their own love with them when they come        Jean Ingelow
C-304 What would the world be to us if children were no more?           Longfellow
C-305 Oh, for boyhood’s time of June crowding years into one brief moon              Whittier
C-306 Sleep undisturbed within the peaceful shrine 
          Till angels wake thee with a note like thine     Samuel Johnson
C-307 No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood        Anon
C-308 Sleep, my little one, sleep               Harrington
C-309 Children are a heritage of the Lord          Psalms 127: 3
C-310 The child is the father of the man            Wordsworth
C-311 Little Boy Blue has gone away            Field
C-312 God’s garden has need of little flowers
C-313 Remembering a tiny angel
C-314 So small, so sweet, so soon
C-315 Lord, we give you our littlest angel
C-316 Budded ( or blossomed) on earth to bloom in Heaven
C-317 For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven
C-318 His was a man’s courage
C-319 Our littlest angel who went back to Heaven
C-320 Called by one who loves him dearly
C-321 Let thy child rest in hope and rise in glory
C-322 Awaiting the touch of a little hand, and the smile of a little face   E. Field
C-324 Children are the keys of paradise      R. H. Stoddard
C-325 An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away       (Adapted) Longfellow