And buckled the strap once more,
And brought them over the tossing main;
Come, children, and look them o’er.
And there they lie on a little stand
Not far from the Holy Book;
And his boys and girls with loving care
O’er grammar and speller look.
He said, “They speak to me, children dear,
Of a past without alloy;
And the look of Books, in promise clear,