LITTLE MARY AND THE WAY SHE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING. [From the "New York Observer."]

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 670, 15 September 1852, Page 3

LITTLE MARY AND THE WAY SHE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING. [From the "New York Observer."]

"Oh! I'm so happy," the little girl said, And she spiang like <i lank fiom her low trnndlc-nori; '"I'is morning, blight morning 1 Good morning, papa! Oh give me a kiss lor good morning, mamma I Only just look sit my prclly canary, Chirping Ins sweet 'good morning (o Mary !' 'J'liu sunshine is peeping straight into my eyes, Good morning to yon Mi. Svin, lbv yon riio K.nly to wake iij) my bhdie and me, And make us as liappy as happy cm be." "Ilnppy you may be my dear little gill," And the mother stiokrd gently a fioft chisteiing ctitl— " Happy as <mu be-bul think of the One Who wnkvn'd thli morning both you ,md the sun." The little one turned her blight eye* with a imd — "Mairma, mi\ I sa), 'Good morning, 1 to Uod ; " "Yes, little dartn q one, snnl> jon m.ij — Kiiful n .s you kneel eveiy moinuig to iiiay.' 7 Mary kn< It M>)eirmly down, iwili hci cya, Lookiuji up tainustu mt,. thu skies; And uio little hands vt-ie loldtd togcthor Solilj she laid on the ) ip of her .ino'htr. "Cioo'l inomnig, cl«*.ii fatliei in IJeivcn," she said, " I th ink thee for notching my snug little bed , For Liking good c.i re of mo ill the dark night, And waiving me up with this biMUtiinl light Oil, keep me from n.iughtinrsi all the long day, Wes>l Jesus, who taught litlle children to pj.iy." An angel looked down in the siinsliuie and 6miled, But sin, saw not the angel— (hat beantilul child,'