Here's a fun animation we created for this rhyme.
(Scroll down for the lyrics.)

This mp3 is of the second version below...

It turns out that this nursery rhyme comes from the following poem:

Little Things.
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.

Here's another version (this is recited in the mp3):

LITTLE THINGS
Ascribed to Julia A. F. Carney

Little drops of water
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land.
Thus the little moments,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
Thus our little errors
Lead the soul away
From the path of virtue,
Off in sin to stray.
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden,
Like the heaven above.

Recited by Kaylee Kay for Librivox.

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