Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Happy the child whose tender years
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1312
Page Number: 784, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHAPPY the child whose tender years
Receive instruction well,
Who hates the sinner's path and fears
The road that leads to hell.
'T will save us from a thousand snares
To mind religion young.
Grace will preserve our foll'wing years,
And make our virtues strong.
To thee, Almighty God, to thee
Our childhood we resign;
'T will please us to look back and see
That our whole lives were thine.
O let the work of pray'r and praise
Employ my youngest breath;
Thus I'm prepar'd for longer days,
Or fit for early death.