‘There, run away darling, run off to your play.’”
“No room for the children!” there may come a day,
When the children no longer will be in the way;
When the angels shall come from the mansions above,
And bear them away to the bright realms of love.
Ah! parents; there may come a day when your child
May be by the tempter ensnared and beguiled;
When the words you now utter, “there, there, run away,”
Shall be changed to the pleading ones, “stay at home, stay.”