what is the central idea of the poem 'the children's song
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In the poem "The Children's Song" by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, children pray to God to enable them to serve their motherland when they grow up. They seek the blessings of God to serve the country along with the other countrymen without any discrimination.
They love their nation and wish to work hard for its progress in the future. They pray for the wisdom to do so and not to seek any favour from the crowd. They pray that they can free the nation from all evils.
This is the promise made by children to their Mother land. The children pray to God that when they grow as “men” and “women” they build a future with uncorrupted heritage. The children ask God to teach them “to bear Steadfastness and careful truth” as two sides of yoke so that the Nations will be filled with people who are truthful.
Children also pray to God to teach them to be like Day and Night. That is, they want to rule themselves as “controlled and clean” so that, there is no worthless sacrifice made. The children request the God to teach them to accept only “Him” as judge and that they don’t do injustice to their friends because of “fear or favour of the crowd”.
They also request God to teach them how not to hurt the weak through their “action or thought” and that they get the strength to comfort the people who are in severe distress. They request the God to teach them to learn to be happy with simple things and not to get happiness at the cost of others (not to rag or make fun-of). They also request Him to teach “to Love all and to Forgive all”.
They are asking for all these qualities because many have lost their Father and the dear ones because of fighting for the Nation for all the wrong reasons.