"Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our pleasant earth below Like the heaven above."

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Editors from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesWomen authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesUniversalists
Original Language: English

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"Little Things" (1845) as quoted in Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson. These were the final words of the poem in the original publication, but some later versions include various additions. Variants: 'Help to make earth happy', 'Make this earth an Eden'.