Grandma's Lessons

"Tis guilt to wear the garb of sin,

Though all be innocent within,"

These little girls heard grandma say,

And wondered if 'twere half in play.

But when they're wiser, older grown,

And when the world to them is known,

They'll learn to shun even seeming ill;

They'll learn with grace their lives to fill,

And thank dear grandma o'er and o'er,

For this, and many lessons more.

"'Tis guilt to wear the garb of sin,

Though all be innocent within."



"If you do well by others' ills,

You'll do right well," she said,

When we would come and tell about

The naughtiness of Ned.

"Now children, if you shun the bad

You may in others find,

And never let yourself be rude,

Or naughty, or unkind,

You'll learn to do by others' ills

Right well," dear grandma said,

"And in the way that's good and true,

Your youthful feet shall tread."