LITTLE ONES AT HOME. 41

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Whether I am at home, or school,
Or walking out abroad,

I never should forget this rule
Of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

 

THE SILLY FLY.
O you little silly fly,
-There’s a spider watching nigh ;
You will soon be in his snare,
Buzzing without heed or care.

There, the little fly is caught
By the spider, quick as thought ;
Lo, he binds and bites the fly:
Silly creature, you must die.

Careless children, like the fly,

Do not think when danger’s nigh:
Mind not what they do or say,
Thus becoming Satan’s prey.

Children thus who learn to sin,
Carelessly at first begin ;

By the sin they soon are bound,
Satan’s prey they thus are found.

Let us always watchful be,
Pray from sin to be set free ;
Then, though Satan’s snares are near,

God will keep us in his fear.
4* Child’s Book of Poetry.