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DAHLIA. 



Watch o'er every bent and mood 

 Of your offspring's dawning mind ; 



Cultivate each germ of good, 

 Gently curb the iU-inchn'd. 



Christian parents ! know ye not 

 Seeds of grace were sown within '^, 



When your little ones you brought 

 To be wash'd fi'om natal sin ^ ? 



Nurture then, with pious zeal, 

 What a gracious God has given, 



That their growing hearts may feel 



They are vow'd to Christ and Heaven ". 



Thus, by discipline's kind aid*^. 



In all holy beauty dight, 

 Shall each day advance be made 



To perfection's dazzling height®. 



» Eph. iv. 7. *> Acts xxii. 16. = (jal. iii. 27. 



<■ For the very true beginning of her (Wisdom) is the desire of discipline ; and 

 the care of discipline is love." — Wisdom of Solomon vi. 17. 



« Heb. vi. 1. 



