Poetry: The Childhood Of Jesus
First published in Fresh Flowers for My Children, by "A Mother," Boston: Simpkins, 1842. The volume is attributed to Katharine Parker Sleeper Gordon.
The fbllowirig linesare from a beautiful little volume, tuled. 'Fresh flowers (or my Cbildren," by a Moiiier. In ihe green fields of Palestiné By i's fountains and its rills. And by the sncred Jordan's stream,And o'ër the vine-chd hills - Ãnce lived and rovëd the fairC6t child Thai evc-r bjéêèed the earth: The hnppicst. the hoiieöt: That e'er had haman birtli. How beautiful bis childhood was! Hannless nnd undcfiled; O, dear to hiá ydürig mcthcr's heart Was this piifGj sinless child! Kindly ih nll hia decds and words, And gentle as ihe dove; Ofafidient, ailectionale, Hts cery soul was love. O. is ià not a blessed thought, Chiláren of human birth, That once the saviour was a child, And lived upon the earth!