Words of Comfort   For a Child Hush my dear, be still and slumber: Jolly angels guard your bed     Watts The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtue     Cicero Children bring their own love with them when they come        Jean Ingelow What would the world be to us if children were no more?           Longfellow Oh, for boyhood’s time of June crowding years into one brief moon          Whittier  Sleep undisturbed within the peaceful shrine  Till angels wake thee with a note like thine     Samuel Johnson No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood        Anon Sleep, my little one, sleep               Harrington Children are a heritage of the Lord          Psalms 127: 3 The child is the father of the man            Wordsworth Little Boy Blue has gone away            Field God’s garden has need of little flowers Remembering a tiny angel So small, so sweet, so soon Lord, we give you our littlest angel Budded ( or blossomed) on earth to bloom in Heaven For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven His was a man’s courage Our littlest angel who went back to Heaven Called by one who loves him dearly Let thy child rest in hope and rise in glory Awaiting the touch of a little hand, and the smile of a little face   E. Field Children are the keys of paradise      R. H. Stoddard An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away       (Adapted) Longfellow