<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Child's Evening Hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father! while the daylight dies,<br>Hear our grateful voices rise:<br>For the blessings that we share,<br>For thy kindness and thy care,<br>For the joy that fills our breast;<br>For the love that makes us blest,<br>We thank thee, Father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For an earthly father's arm,<br>Shielding us from wrong and harm;<br>For a mother's watchful cares,<br>Mingled with her many prayers;<br>For the happy kindred band,<br>'Midst whose peaceful links we stand,<br>We bless thee, Father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet while ‘neath the evening skies,<br>Thus we bid our thanks arise,<br>Father! still we think of those,<br>Who are bow'd with many woes,<br>Whom no earthly parent's arm<br>Can protect from wrong and harm;<br>The poor slaves, Father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! while we are richly blest,<br>They are wretched and distrest!<br>Outcasts in their native land,<br>Crush'd beneath oppression's hand,<br>Scarcely knowing even thee,<br>Mighty Lord of earth and sea!<br>Oh, save them, Father!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Touch the flinty hearts, that long<br>Have, remorseless, done them wrong;<br>Ope the eyes that long have been<br>Blind to every guilty scene;<br>That the slave—a slave no more—<br>Grateful thanks to thee may pour,<br>And bless thee, Father</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117480" data-title="The Child's Evening Hymn de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Father! while the daylight dies,/Hear our grateful voices rise:/For the blessings that we share,/For thy kindness and thy care,/For the joy that fills our breast;/For the love that makes us blest,/We thank thee, Father./For an earthly father's arm..."></div> </div> </div>

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