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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.

— Jane Taylor

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

Far from mortal cares retreating,
Sordid hopes and vain desires,
Here, our willing footsteps meeting,
Every heart to heaven aspires.

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!

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

Are we not children, all of us?

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