62 MORAL SONGS FOR CHILDREN.

4 Oft we see a young beginner
Practise little pilfering ways,
Till grown up a harden’d sinner,
Then the gallows ends his days.

5 Theft will not be always hidden,
Though we fancy none can spy ;
When we take a thing forbidden,
God beholds it with his eye.

6 Guard my heart, O God of heaven,
Lest I covet what’s not mine;
Lest I take what is not given,
Guard my heart and hands from sin,