Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
...
Think gently of the erring:
Ye know not of the power
With which the dark temptation came
...
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, born Julia Fletcher (April 6, 1823, Lancaster, Massachusetts – November 1, 1908, Galesburg, Illinois) was an American educator and poet. Educated at Lancaster Academy, Julia Fletcher achieved fame in 1845 for her poem "Little Things".[2] In 1849 she married Thomas J. Carney, a Universalist minister; four of the couple's nine children died in infancy. Julia Fletcher Carney wrote for Universalist and other periodicals; many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books or as hymns.)
Little Things
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
So the little moments,
Humble thought they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of Eternity.
So the little errors
Lead the sould away
From the paths of virtue
Far in sin to stray.
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make earth happy
Like the Heaven above.
I believe that the word in the following verse should be soul instead of sould So the little errors Lead the sould [soul? ] away From the paths of virtue Far in sin to stray.
This poem has been translated about 100 yrs ago in Mizo language and it has been in the book of Alai bu, collection of poems, as one of the sublects in the primary school in Mizoram.