THE LITTLE ORATOR. PART I.-POETRY. MAKE YOUR MARK. In the quarries should you toil, Do you delve upon the soil? In whatever path you go, In whatever place you stand, Life is fleeting as a shade; Make your mark; Marks of some kind must be made, Make your mark; Make it while your heart is strong, Never, never make it wrong; TOO LATE. Too late to rise, too late for school, The sluggard soon becomes a fool: Oh! use the precious hours to-day, And, grateful to your parents be, And, to thy suffering brother-man Give aid and comfort, while you can, Aye, like the good Samaritan, Ere yet it be "too late." To all Death hasteth on apace, Then seek thy heavenly Father's face, Through life to guide thee by His graceEre yet it be "too late." A CHILD MAY BE USEFUL. I MAY, if I have but a mind, Do good in many ways. Plenty to do the young may find, In these our busy days. Sad would it be, though young and small, If I were of no use at all. One gentle word, that I may speak, Or one kind, loving deed, May, though a trifle poor and weak, Prove like a tiny seed; And who can tell what good may spring From such a very little thing? Then let me try, each day and hour, To act upon this little plan, What little good is in my power, To do it while I can. If to be useful thus I try, DOING RIGHT. O, THAT it were my chief delight Then let me try, with all my might, To mind what I am taught. |