The great God smiles, and reaches down

To take his children’s love.

THE UNFINISHED PRAYER.

This beautiful poem is admirably adapted for a church entertainment when spoken by a little girl.

“Now I lay”—say it, darling;

“Lay me,” lisped the tiny lips

Of my daughter, kneeling, bending

O’er her folded finger tips.

“Down to sleep”—“to sleep,” she murmured

And the curly head dropped low;