Poems for our Children/The Lesson
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THE LESSON.
'Come here, my son,' the father said—
'What lesson have you read today?'
The little prattler raised his head,
And shook his curls away,
And answered with an earnest eye,
'My father, I have read the sky.'
'How read the sky?'—'Yes, father, yes—
I saw a beauteous rainbow there,
And then I thought, how fair it is—
And read, God made it fair;
You say that everywhere around
Lessons of wisdom may be found.
'O, father, tell me how I can
Read all I see in earth or sky?'
'My son, the God who fashioned man
Can guide his heart and eye,
To him as to thy Master look—
He made, and he can teach the book.'