Religion
A Mother to a Boy
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Religion
" God writes down every idle word
He and His Angels round have heard."
So spake a mother : in reply
The little fellow cried, " O my f
His writing I should like to see ;
How big the copybook must be !
Can you not let me get a peep,
Mamma, before I go to sleep?"
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “A Mother to a Boy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/198/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “A Mother to a Boy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/198/.
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