My sweet little girl should be cheerful and mild <br />She must not be fretful and cry! <br />Oh! why is this passion? remember, my child, <br />GOD sees you, who lives in the sky. <br /> <br />That dear little face, that I like so to kiss, <br />How alter'd and sad it appears! <br />Do you think I can love you so naughty as this, <br />Or kiss you, all wetted with tears? <br /> <br />Remember, though GOD is in Heaven, my love, <br />He sees you within and without, <br />And always looks down, from His glory above, <br />To notice what you are about. <br /> <br />If I am not with you, or if it be dark, <br />And nobody is in the way, <br />His eye is as able your doings to mark, <br />In the night as it is in the day. <br /> <br />Then dry up your tears and look smiling again, <br />And never do things that are wrong; <br />For I'm sure you must feel it a terrible pain, <br />To be naughty and crying so long. <br /> <br />We'll pray, then, that GOD may your passion forgive, <br />And teach you from evil to fly; <br />And then you'll be happy as long as you live, <br />And happy whenever you die.<br /><br />Ann Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-a-naughty-little-girl/
