Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.


For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor.


Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.