<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Innocence of Infancy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With gentle words and gracious look,<br>The loving Saviour spoke and smiled;<br>When in His welcoming arms He took<br>A happy child, and blessed the child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For childhood's earliest day begins<br>In the bright heaven of innocence,<br>Ere wand'ring thoughts or tempting sins<br>Seduce its erring footsteps thence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Would that, as following years roll on,<br>Life's infant brightness might endure,<br>And leave us, when those years are gone,<br>Pure, as a happy child is pure!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O God! who veil'st the future o'er,<br>Through whose thick darkness none can see,<br>Protect, preserve, redeem, restore<br>The innocence of infancy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Bowring">John Bowring</a><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=576805" data-title="The Innocence of Infancy de John Bowring" data-description="With gentle words and gracious look, The loving Saviour spoke and smiled; When in His welcoming arms He took A happy child, and blessed the child. For childhood's earliest day begins In the bright heaven of innocence, Ere wand'ring thoughts or t..."></div> </div> </div>

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