Religion
Proverbs 14:1: A Mother principled with grace
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
A Mother principled with grace,
With heavenly wisdom wise,
Her children from their earliest days
Builds up to reach the skies:
But ah! the fond indulgent fool,
Who loves her babes so well,
She breeds them up in nature's school,
And drags them down to hell.
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