LONG may your little son, now lent,
To you a pleasure prove,
And may each anxious care be crown’d,
With gratitude and love.
May nothing ill, him e’er beset,
Or dangerous disease,
But as he grows in days and years,
At least succeed to please.
And when as through the thorny paths,
Of life, he bends his step,
May parents’ wings him shelter give,
Him guide and still direct.
May each instruction then, bestowed
To form his infant mind
Far virtuous deeds, be all your aim,
Each precept still to bind.
O may his mother’s mildness shine
In what he does or says,
And manly sense with it combine,
In all his future ways.
May all his conduct thus be marked be
With uprightness and truth,
And never any sinful course,
Pervade his days of youth.
For comfort to his friends, may he
Be blest with many years,
With health of body, peace of mind,
To dissipate their fears.
At length, when call’d to leave this earth,
May a more sure abode
Be open’d wide, him to receive,
In presence of his God.
(Margaretta Wedderburn)
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