I thank the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me in these Christian days,
A happy English child.


"A Child's Hymn of Praise," from Hymns for Infant Minds (1810).


I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.