I will clasp my hands around my brother,

And say, 'Little children, love one another.'"

The little girl did as her Bible taught,

And pleasant indeed was the change it wrought;

For the boy looked up in glad surprise,

To meet the light of her loving eyes:

His heart was full,—he could not speak;

But he pressed a kiss on his sister's cheek;

And God looked down on that happy mother

Whose "little children loved each other."