To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented <br />Their children-what fears and what hopes they must feel! <br />When this the disciples would fain have prevented, <br />Our Saviour reproved their unseasonable zeal. <br /> <br />Not only free leave to come to him was given <br />But 'of such' were the blessed words Christ our Lord spake, <br />'Of such is composed the kingdom of heaven:' <br />The disciples, abashëd, perceived their mistake. <br /> <br />With joy then the parents their children brought nigher <br />And earnestly begged that his hands he would lay <br />On their heads; and they made a petition still higher, <br />That he for a blessing upon them would pray. <br /> <br />O happy young children, thus brought to adore him, <br />To kneel at his feet, and look up in his face; <br />No doubt now in heaven they still are before him, <br />Children still of his love, and enjoying his grace. <br /> <br />For being so blest as to come to our Saviour, <br />How deep in their innocent hearts it must sink! <br />'Twas a visit divine; a most holy behaviour <br />Must flow from that spring of which then they did drink.<br /><br />Charles Lamb<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/suffer-little-children-and-forbid-them-not-to-come-unto-me/
