The Little Seraph: in seven character notes, for churches and Sunday-schools 106a. Who shall sing, If not the children?

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105

The Little Seraph‎#106a

106b

Text:	Who shall sing
Tune:	[Who shall sing, If not the children?]

1 Who shall sing, If not the children?
Did not Jesus die for them?
May they not, with other jewels
Sparkle in his diadem?
Why to them were voices given,
Bird-like voices, sweet and clear?
Why, unless the song of heaven
They begin to practise here.

2 There's a choir of infant songsters,
White-robed, round the Saviour's throne;
Angels cease, and, waiting, listen:
Oh, 'tis sweeter than their own!
Faith can hear the rapt'rous choral,
When her ear is upward turn'd:
Is not this the same, perfected,
Which upon the earth they learn'd?

3 Jesus, when on earth sojourning,
Loved them with a wondrous love;
And will he, to heaven returning,
Faithless to his blessing prove?
Oh, they cannot sing too early:
Fathers, stand not in their way!
Birds do sing while day is breaking:
Tell me, then, why should not they?