uld be but small--yet in a trice
(If thou dost strictly God adore)
He'll make that little store suffice.

Do not on thy own arm rely,
Thy strength or thy superior skill,
But on thy friend, the Lord most high!
If thou would'st be preserv'd from ill.

God feeds the warblers of the wood,
And clothes the lilies of the plain;
God gives to all things living food,
And will he not his sons sustain?

The ravens neither sow nor reap,
They have no barns to house their seed;
Yet God does even the ravens keep,
And them, through every season, feed.

Observe the lily, and the rose,
To toil and spin they ne'er were given;
Yet God on them a robe bestows,
More rich than monarch's vesture even.

On God, each living creature's eyes
Are fix'd--he, with a parent's care,
The wants of all the world supplies,
And gives to each its proper share.

He opes his bounteous hand full wide,
And feeds each animal that lives,
And ne'er leaves any unsupplied,
But to them all due measure gives.

He to the lion's cubs gives food,
To each fierce rambler of the wild,
To the black raven's glossy brood,
And shall he not to every child?

Thou dost not drop a single hair,
Without a providence divine;
No sparrow tumbles from the air,
Nought haps which God did not design.

Already has God's providence
To thee, breath, being, strength allow'd--
Health, knowledge, reason, memory, sense,
Will he not, think'st thou, give thee food?

Two sparrows, as they are so small,
Are purchas'd for a single mite;
Though little, yet God feeds them all,
Art thou less precious in his sight?

Though God, for all his creatures here
With a most lib'ral hand provides;
Yet is the soul of man more dear
To him, than all his works besides.

On God, thy cares and troubles lay--
For thee, he always is in pain;
If Christ thou truly dost obey,
A sure reward thou shalt obtain.

Footnotes:

{59} The Goryn Ddu (black crown), is surmounted by a circular ancient
British station, in a very perfect state, about a mile from Trwst
Llywelyn, on the other side of the river, up the vale: like the ancient
Mathraval, it is situated in a wood.

{61} Trwst Llywelyn is only four or five miles from the nearest point of
Shropshire; and the inhabitants, except the very old people, do not
understand the Welsh language.

{62} Anglesey.

{65} King of the Fairies.

{75a} The battle of Maelor,