LITTLE ONES AT HOME.

WORK AND PLAY. :

These children who are all the day
Allowed to wander out,

And only waste their time in play,

— Or running wild about ;

Who do not any school attend,
But trifle as they will,

Are almost certain in the end
To come to something ill.

There’s nothing worse than idleness
To lead them into sin ;

’T is sure to end in wretchedness,
In poverty, and pain.