Golden Rules - A Poem With Good Advice For All

Child's Morality Poem
GOLDEN
RULES
Adapted From Antique
British Book
© James Dearmore, 2009

From Graphic Stories for Boys and Girls — published in England in the 1800's --- A series of morality stories and short stories of interest for children. Author Unknown.

If you've any task to do,
Let me whisper, friend, to you,

Do it.

If you've any thing to say,
True and needed, yea or nay,

Say it.

If you've any thing to love,
As a blessing from above,

Love it.

If you've any thing to give,
That another's joy may live,

Give it.

If you know what torch to light,
Guiding others through the night,

Light it.

If you've any debt to pay,
Rest you neither night nor day,

Pay it.

If you've any joy to hold
Next your heart, lest it get cold,

Hold it.

If you've any grief to meet,
At the loving Father's feet,

Meet it.

If you're given light to see
What a child of God should be,

See it.

Whether life be bright or drear,
There's a message sweet and clear
Whispered down to every ear

Hear it.

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