Written in easy language for children and dedicated to the daughters of Sir Thomas Abney, in whose house Watts lived for many years, these short hymns teach praise, obedience, honesty and kindness through plain rhyme. Here are the verses on the busy bee and on brothers who fall out and fight, alongside moral songs on idleness, lying and the shortness of life.
Verses so familiar to Victorian children that Lewis Carroll parodied them in Alice; the theology is stern dissenting fare. Download the free EPUB.