A tiny four-line poem about being grateful for a full table and a full world. Its brevity and gentle rhyme make it an easy one to learn by heart.
From A Child's Garden of Verses. See the whole collection.
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
About this poem
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1885. · Text reads 'In every Christian kind of place,' not a generic 'everywhere.'
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this one for A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885. It's barely four lines: the pleasant thought that the world is full of food and drink, and that children are saying grace for it in every Christian corner of the world. Simple enough to say before a meal, if you fancy a moment of it.
Public domain. Text from A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition