A mother principled with grace,
With heavenly wisdom wise
Her children from their earliest days
Builds up to reach the skies:
But ah! The fond indulgent fool,
Who loves her babes so well,
She breeds them up in nature’s school,
And drags them down to hell.
A mother principled with grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”—[Prov.] xiv. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 349.
Publishing: Public Domain