Quote#Happiness
I thank the goodness and the grace
Quote byJane Taylor · 1783–1824
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A Child's Hymn of Praise," from Hymns for Infant Minds (1810)..
English (original)
I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.
— Jane Taylor
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