148 FOR A CHRISTIAN CHILD. The winds that blight, the wolves that slay, Thy crook of love points out the way, Lead me, O lead me to thy fold! Whether the way be dark and drear, Whether where trees of Lebanon SACRED OFFERING. FOR A CHRISTIAN CHILD. SEEING I am Jesus' lamb, Ever glad at heart I am O'er my Shepherd kind and good, Who provides me daily food, For he knows and loves us all. CHRISTMAS. Guided by his gentle staff Must I not rejoice for this? He will bear me home to heaven; Ah, what joy hath Jesus given! 149 LOUIS H. VON HAYM. CHRISTMAS. 'Tis Christmas day! glad voices Why do we thus greet Christmas morn? With little gifts that tell our love, With garlands on the wall, With thankful hearts and helpful hands, Why do we thus keep Christmas morn? Full eighteen hundred years ago And on this Christmas morning, Dear child! in your warm, pleasant home, So shall you well keep Christmas morn, Christ healed the sick, and helped the poor, When he was on the earth: Do what you can to be like him This morning of his birth; Help some one to keep Christmas morn, HYMNS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. JESUS AND THE DOVE. 151 JESUS AND THE DOVE. A CATHOLIC LEGEND. # With patient hand Jesus in clay once wrought, MARY, the mother good and mild, To find the brightest, freshest flowers, Tired of play, they came at last And sat at Mary's feet, While Jesus asked his mother dear A story to repeat. "And we," said one, "from out this clay Will make some little birds, So shall we all sit quietly And heed the mother's words." 152 JESUS AND THE DOVE. Then Mary, in her gentle voice, Told of a little child, Who lost her way one dark, dark night And how an angel came to her, And how he bore her in his arms The children sit at Mary's feet, But now the clay that Jesus held And slowly grew within his hands Whose eyes unclose, whose wings unfold, |