Of which I have heard so much!

“Then, since my voice will not join with theirs,

In my heart I try to pray,

And I whisper o’er those little prayers

You taught me how to say!

“Say, mother, why did the preacher place

His dripping hand on the little child?

And did you not mark its rosy face

How angel-like it smiled?

“When I was so very, very small,