 Augustine concludes his vivid portrait of infancy with a prayer that will resonate with any parent who has ever watched a baby sleeping and marveled at the loveliness of the sight. You, O Lord, who have given life to the speechless baby, and a body furnished with senses fitted with members and shaped in beauty, and for his integrity and safety have instilled in him all the powers of living being. You command me to praise you for them and to sing psalms to your name almost high. For you are a God almighty and good, even if you had made these things and no more, which none other than you could have made. You most beautiful, who then formed to all things and set them in order by your law.