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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
+by Eliza Lee Follen
+
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+Title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
+
+Author: Eliza Lee Follen
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+Release Date: September 13, 2005 [EBook #16688]
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+
+HYMNS, SONGS, AND FABLES,
+FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+BY
+
+ELIZA LEE FOLLEN.
+
+REVISED AND ENLARGED FROM THE LAST EDITION.
+
+BOSTON:
+WM. CROSBY AND H.P. NICHOLS,
+118 WASHINGTON STREET.
+
+1851.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by WM. CROSBY
+AND H.P. NICHOLS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
+District of Massachusetts.
+
+CAMBRIDGE:
+STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
+METCALF AND COMPANY,
+PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
+
+BY CHARLES FOLLEN.
+
+
+This little book is dedicated to parents and children. Most of the
+poems were written with no other hope, than that they would instruct
+or please some child. The pleasure they have given in a limited circle
+has tempted the writer to print them. Some have never before appeared
+in public, but most of them have been already published in different
+works; some few, without the author's knowledge.
+
+It will be found that these poems are intended for children of
+different ages and characters. It may be objected to the book, that
+gay and serious pieces are bound up together; but so it is in human
+life and human nature, and it is essential to the healthful action of
+a child's mind that it should be so. The smile that overtakes its
+tears is as necessary to the child as the sun after a spring shower
+is to the young plant; and without it a blight will fall upon the
+opening blossom.
+
+The natural love that all have for their literary offspring, perhaps,
+first induced the author to bring the stray little family together.
+This motive was strengthened by the hope that children might love the
+book, and that she might have the pleasure of seeing it among their
+treasures, with the corners of the leaves well worn by their little
+fingers, and perhaps sometimes placed upon the pillow where "angels
+hover round."
+
+This success, which must secure to her also the approbation of
+parents, she does aspire after, and most earnestly desire; this, and
+this alone, will satisfy her; without this, she would be the first to
+pronounce it an unworthy offering.
+
+CAMBRIDGE, May 19, 1831.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
+
+
+The present edition of Hymns, Songs, and Fables, has been greatly
+enlarged, by poems either not before printed, or that have had a very
+limited circulation, and also by a number of translations from the
+German. If they should have the good fortune to add to the innocent
+pleasure of the young, and deserve to become associated in their minds
+with the pure and hallowed recollections of home, and happy early
+days, my highest ambition with regard to them be entirely gratified.
+
+ELIZA LEE FOLLEN.
+
+CAMBRIDGE, November 19, 1846.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+HYMNS.
+
+ PAGE
+
+"Suffer little children to come unto me" 1
+
+Hymn 2
+
+Hymn for a Little Boy 3
+
+"The Lord is my Strength" 5
+
+Hymn 6
+
+"Thy Will be done" 7
+
+Sabbath Day 8
+
+The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed 10
+
+God is good 11
+
+Evening 12
+
+Robinson Crusoe's Hymn 13
+
+Hymn 14
+
+On Prayer 16
+
+"The Spirit giveth Life" 17
+
+We never part from Thee 19
+
+"I will arise and go to my Father" 20
+
+Evening Hymn 22
+
+Autumn 23
+
+The Lord's Day 24
+
+The Ministry of Pain 25
+
+"By Faith ye are saved" 26
+
+Evening Prayer 27
+
+Evening Hymn 28
+
+Lines written at Midnight 29
+
+"Hope in God" 31
+
+Failure and Success 32
+
+
+SONGS.
+
+The Little Spring 35
+
+The Little Boy's May-day Song 36
+
+Guess what I have heard 38
+
+Spring 39
+
+The Little Boy's Good-night 40
+
+The Shepherd's Sabbath-song 41
+
+To Spring 42
+
+Her Voyage is at an End 44
+
+Charley and his Father. A Ballad 47
+
+Remember the Slave 50
+
+Home-sickness 52
+
+Happiness 53
+
+Children in Slavery 54
+
+To Good Resolutions 55
+
+Thanks for a Pleasant Day 56
+
+To a Butterfly 57
+
+To Nature 58
+
+On the Death of a Young Companion 59
+
+The Sabbath is here 60
+
+The Child at her Mother's Grave 62
+
+Child's Song 63
+
+To a Fountain 64
+
+Song for an Infant School 64
+
+The Summer 66
+
+To a Beautiful Girl 68
+
+The Little Slave's Wish 69
+
+
+FABLES.
+
+The Honest Bird 73
+
+Soliloquy of Ellen's Squirrel 76
+
+The Pin, Needle, and Scissors 77
+
+Learned Fred 83
+
+Little Roland 84
+
+Billy Rabbit to Mary 91
+
+The Old and New Shoes 93
+
+The Monkeys and the Bears 97
+
+
+
+
+HYMNS.
+
+
+"SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME."
+
+ "Let little children come to me,"--
+ This is what the Saviour said;
+ Little children, come and see
+ Where these gracious words are read.
+
+ Often on these pages look,--
+ Of the love of God they tell;
+ 'Tis indeed a holy book,--
+ Learn to read and love it well.
+
+ Thus you hear the Saviour speak,--
+ "Come ye all and learn of me";
+ He was gentle, lowly, meek,--
+ So should all his followers be.
+
+ When our Saviour from above,
+ From his Father did descend,
+ He took them in his arms of love,
+ And children knew him for their friend.
+
+ All little children Jesus blessed,--
+ Blessed in innocence they are;
+ Little children he caressed;
+ Praise him in your infant prayer.
+
+
+HYMN.
+
+ Praise to God! O let us raise
+ From our hearts a song of praise!
+ Of that goodness let us sing
+ Whence our lives and blessings spring.
+
+ Praise to him who made the light,
+ Praise to him who gave us sight,
+ Praise to him who formed the ear;
+ Will he not his children hear?
+
+ Praise him for our happy hours,
+ Praise him for our varied powers,
+ For these thoughts that rise above,
+ For these hearts he made for love,
+
+ For the voice he placed within,
+ Bearing witness when we sin;
+ Praise to him whose tender care
+ Keeps this watchful guardian there.
+
+ Praise his mercy, that did send
+ Jesus for our guide and friend;
+ Praise him, every heart and voice,
+ Him who makes all worlds rejoice.
+
+
+HYMN FOR A LITTLE BOY.
+
+ "What, mother, makes it seem to me,
+ When I am all alone,
+ As if some one could hear and see,
+ And all my thoughts were known?
+
+ "Sometimes it makes me very glad,
+ And dance and sing with joy;
+ Sometimes it makes me very sad,
+ And frights your little boy.
+
+ "O, tell me, mother, tell me why;
+ For I have never known
+ Why 'tis I laugh, or why I cry,
+ When I am all alone."
+
+ "My child, you never are alone;
+ There is a watchful eye
+ To which your very thoughts are known;
+ 'Tis God is ever nigh.
+
+ "He made your little heart for joy,
+ He tunes your happy song;
+ O, then, my little timid boy,
+ Fear only doing wrong.
+
+ "For he who makes your heart so glad,
+ Who bids the good be gay,
+ With the same love will make it sad,
+ Whene'er you disobey.
+
+ "He is our Father, and he hears
+ Your weakest, faintest prayer;
+ He wipes away an infant's tears,
+ And children are his care."
+
+
+"THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH."
+
+ Almighty Father! I am weak,
+ But thou wilt strengthen me,
+ If from my heart I humbly seek
+ For help and light from thee.
+
+ When I am tempted to do wrong,
+ Then, Father, pity me,
+ And make my failing virtue strong;
+ Help me to think of thee!
+
+ Let Christian courage guard my youth;
+ That courage give to me
+ Which ever speaks and acts the truth,
+ And puts its trust in thee.
+
+
+HYMN.
+
+ Will God, who made the earth and sea,
+ The night, and shining day,
+ Regard a little child like me,
+ And listen when I pray?
+
+ If I am hungry, poor, and cold,
+ Then will he hear my cry?
+ And when I shall be sick and old,
+ O, then will God be nigh?
+
+ Yes; in his holy word we read
+ Of his unfailing love;
+ And when his mercy most we need,
+ His mercy he will prove.
+
+ To those who seek him, he is near;
+ He looks upon the heart,
+ And from the humble and sincere
+ He never will depart.
+
+ He sees our thoughts, our wishes knows,
+ He hears our faintest prayer;
+ Where'er the faithful Christian goes,
+ He finds his Father there.
+
+ Obedient children need not fear;
+ God is a faithful friend,
+ And when no other help is near,
+ He will deliverance send.
+
+ Then fear not hunger, cold, or pain,
+ But fear to disobey
+ That power which does your life sustain,
+ And guards you every day.
+
+
+"THY WILL BE DONE."
+
+ How sweet to be allowed to pray
+ To God, the Holy One,
+ With filial love and trust to say,--
+ "Father, thy will be done!"
+
+ We in these sacred words can find
+ A cure for every ill;
+ They calm and soothe the troubled mind,
+ And bid all care be still.
+
+ O, let that will, which gave me breath
+ And an immortal soul,
+ In joy or grief, in life or death,
+ My every wish control!
+
+ O, could my heart thus ever pray,
+ Thus imitate thy Son!
+ Teach me, O God, with truth to say,--
+ "Thy will, not mine, be done!"
+
+
+SABBATH DAY.
+
+ How sweet upon this sacred day,
+ The best of all the seven,
+ To cast our earthly thoughts away,
+ And think of God and heaven!
+
+ How sweet to be allowed to pray
+ Our sins may be forgiven;
+ With filial confidence to say,
+ "Father, who art in heaven"!
+
+ With humble hope to bend the knee,
+ And, free from folly's leaven,
+ Confess that we have strayed from thee,
+ Thou righteous Judge in heaven!
+
+ And if to make all sin depart
+ In vain the will has striven,
+ He who regards the inmost heart
+ Will send his grace from heaven.
+
+ If from the bosom that is dear
+ By cold unkindness driven,
+ The heart that knows no refuge here
+ Shall find a friend in heaven.
+
+ Then hail, thou sacred, blessed day,
+ The best of all the seven,
+ When hearts unite their vows to pay
+ Of gratitude to Heaven.
+
+
+THE GOOD BOY'S HYMN ON GOING TO BED.
+
+ How sweet to lay my weary head
+ Upon my quiet little bed,
+ And feel assured, that all day long
+ I have not knowingly done wrong!
+
+ How sweet to hear my mother say,
+ "You have been very good to-day!"
+ How sweet to see my father's joy
+ When he can say, "My dear, good boy!"
+
+ How sweet it is my thoughts to send
+ To many a dear-loved distant friend,
+ And feel, if they my heart could see,
+ How very happy they would be!
+
+ How sweet to think that He whose love
+ Made all these shining worlds above
+ My pure and happy heart can see,
+ And loves a little boy like me.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+GOD IS GOOD.
+
+ Thou art good! Each perfumed flower,
+ Waving fields, the dark green wood,
+ The insect fluttering for an hour,--
+ All things proclaim that God is good.
+
+ I hear it in each breath of wind;
+ The hills that have for ages stood,
+ And clouds with gold and silver lined,
+ All still repeat that God is good.
+
+ Each little rill, that many a year
+ Has the same verdant path pursued,
+ And every bird, in accents clear,
+ Joins in the song that God is good.
+
+ The restless sea, with haughty roar,
+ Calms each wild wave and billow rude,
+ Retreats submissive from the shore,
+ And swells the chorus, "God is good."
+
+ The countless hosts of twinkling stars,
+ That sing his praise with light renewed;
+ The rising sun each day declares,
+ In rays of glory, God is good.
+
+ The moon, that walks in brightness, says,
+ That God is good! and man, endued
+ With power to speak his Maker's praise,
+ Should still repeat that God is good.
+
+
+EVENING.
+
+ How beautiful the setting sun!
+ The clouds how bright and gay!
+ The stars, appearing one by one,
+ How beautiful are they!
+
+ And when the moon climbs up the sky,
+ And sheds her gentle light,
+ And hangs her crystal lamp on high,
+ How beautiful is night!
+
+ And can it be I am possessed
+ Of something brighter far?
+ Glows there a light within this breast
+ Outshining every star?
+
+ Yes; should the sun and stars turn pale,
+ The mountains melt away,
+ This flame within shall never fail,
+ But live in endless day.
+
+ This is the soul that God has given,--
+ Sin may its lustre dim;
+ While goodness bears it up to heaven,
+ And leads it back to him.
+
+
+ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HYMN.
+
+ My Heavenly Father! all I see,
+ Around me and above,
+ Sends forth a hymn of praise to thee,
+ And speaks thy boundless love.
+
+ The clear blue sky is full of thee,
+ The woods so dark and lone;
+ The soft south-wind, the sounding sea,
+ Worship the Holy One.
+
+ The humming of the insect throng,
+ The prattling, sparkling rill,
+ The birds, with their melodious song,
+ Repeat thy praises still.
+
+ And thou dost hear them every one,--
+ Father, thou hearest me;
+ I know that I am not alone,
+ When I but think of thee.
+
+
+HYMN.
+
+ It was my Heavenly Father's love
+ Brought every being forth;
+ He made the shining worlds above,
+ And every thing on earth.
+
+ Each lovely flower, the smallest fly,
+ The sea, the waterfall,
+ The bright green fields, the clear blue sky,--
+ 'Tis God that made them all.
+
+ He gave me all my friends, and taught
+ My heart to love them well,
+ And he bestowed the power of thought,
+ And speech my thoughts to tell.
+
+ My father and my mother dear,--
+ He is their father too;
+ He bids me all their precepts hear,
+ And all they teach me, do.
+
+ God sees and hears me all the day,
+ And 'mid the darkest night;
+ He views me when I disobey,
+ And when I act aright.
+
+ He guards me with a parent's care,
+ When I am all alone;
+ My hymn of praise, my humble prayer,
+ He hears them every one.
+
+ God hears what I am saying now,--
+ O, what a wondrous thought!
+ My Heavenly Father, teach me how
+ To love thee as I ought.
+
+
+ON PRAYER.
+
+ As through the pathless fields of air
+ Wandered forth the timid dove,
+ So the heart, in humble prayer,
+ Essays to reach the throne of love.
+
+ Like her it may return unblest,
+ Like her again may soar,
+ And still return and find no rest,
+ No peaceful, happy shore.
+
+ But now once more she spreads her wings,
+ And takes a bolder flight,
+ And see! the olive-branch she brings,
+ To bless her master's sight.
+
+ And thus the heart renews its strength,
+ Though spent and tempest-driven,
+ And higher soars, and brings at length
+ A pledge of peace with Heaven.
+
+
+"THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE."
+
+ What was in the viewless wind,
+ Wild rushing through the oak,
+ Seemed to my listening, dreaming mind
+ As though a spirit spoke?
+
+ What is it to the murmuring stream
+ Doth give so sweet a song,
+ That on its tide my thoughts do seem
+ To pour themselves along?
+
+ What is it on the dizzy height,
+ What in each glowing star,
+ That speaks of things beyond the sight,
+ And questions what they are?
+
+ What in the rolling thunder's voice,
+ What in the ocean's roar,
+ Hears the grand chorus, "O, rejoice!"
+ Echo from shore to shore?
+
+ What in the gentle moon doth see
+ Pure thoughts and tender love,
+ And hears delicious melody
+ Around, below, above?
+
+ What bids the savage tempest speak
+ Of terror and dismay,
+ And wakes the agonizing shriek
+ Of guilt that fears to pray?
+
+ It is this ever-living mind;
+ This little throb of life
+ Hears its own echoes in the wind,
+ And in the tempest's strife;
+
+ To all that's sweet, and bright, and fair,
+ Its own affections gives;
+ Sees its own image everywhere,
+ Through all creation lives.
+
+ It bids the everlasting hills
+ Give back the solemn tone;
+ This boundless arch of azure fills
+ With accents all its own.
+
+ What is this life-inspiring mind,
+ This omnipresent thought?
+ How shall it ever utterance find
+ For all itself hath taught?
+
+ To Him who breathed the heavenly flame,
+ Its mysteries are known;
+ It seeks the source from whence it came,
+ And rests in God alone.
+
+
+WE NEVER PART FROM THEE.
+
+ God, who dwellest everywhere
+ God, who makest all thy care,
+ God, who hearest every prayer,
+ Thou who see'st the heart;
+
+ Thou to whom we lift our eyes.
+ Father, help our souls to rise,
+ And, beyond these narrow skies,
+ See thee as thou art!
+
+ Let our anxious thoughts be still,
+ Holy trust adore thy will,
+ Holy love our bosoms fill,
+ Let our songs ascend!
+ Dearest friends may parted be,
+ All our earthly treasures flee,
+ Yet we never part from thee,
+ Our eternal Friend.
+
+
+"I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER."
+
+ Help me, O God, to trust in thee,
+ Thou high and holy One!
+ And may my troubled spirit flee
+ For rest to thee alone.
+
+ In thee alone the soul can find
+ Secure and sweet repose;
+ And thou canst bid the desert mind
+ To blossom as the rose.
+
+ Let not this spirit, formed to rise
+ Where angels claim their birth,
+ Forsake its home beyond the skies,
+ And cling to barren earth.
+
+ The bird of passage knows the sign
+ That warns him to depart;
+ Shall I not heed the voice divine,
+ That whispers in my heart,--
+
+ "Up! plume thy wings, soar far away!
+ No longer idly roam!
+ Fly to the realms of endless day;
+ For this is not thy home."
+
+ This still, small voice, O, may I hear!
+ Ere clouds and darkness come,
+ And thunders in my startled ear
+ Proclaim my final doom.
+
+ Father! to thee my spirit cries!
+ Thy wandering child reclaim.
+ Speak! and my dying faith shall rise,
+ And wake a deathless flame.
+
+
+EVENING HYMN.
+
+ Thou, from whom we never part,
+ Thou, whose love is everywhere,
+ Thou who seest every heart,
+ Listen to our evening prayer.
+
+ Father! fill our souls with love,
+ Love unfailing, full, and free,
+ Love no injury can move,
+ Love that ever rests on thee.
+
+ Heavenly Father! through the night
+ Keep us safe from every ill;
+ Cheerful as the morning light,
+ May we wake to do thy will.
+
+
+AUTUMN.
+
+ Sweet Summer, with her flowers, has past,
+ I hear her parting knell;
+ I hear the moaning, fitful blast,
+ Sighing a sad farewell.
+
+ But, while she fades and dies away,
+ In rainbow hues she glows;
+ Like the last smile of parting day,
+ Still brightening as she goes.
+
+ The robin whistles clear and shrill;
+ Sad is the cricket's song;
+ The wind, wild rushing o'er the hill,
+ Bears the dead leaf along.
+
+ I love this sober, solemn time,
+ This twilight of the year;
+ To me, sweet Spring, in all her prime,
+ Was never half so dear.
+
+ While death has set his changing seal
+ On all that meets the eye,
+ 'Tis rapture, then, within to feel
+ The soul that cannot die;--
+
+ To look far, far beyond this sky,
+ To Him who changes never.
+ This earth, these heavens, shall change and die;
+ God is the same for ever.
+
+
+THE LORD'S DAY.
+
+ This is the day when Jesus woke
+ From the deep slumbers of the tomb;
+ This is the day the Saviour broke
+ The bonds of fear and hopeless gloom.
+
+ This is indeed a holy day;
+ No longer may we dread to die.
+ Let every fear be cast away,
+ And tears be wiped from every eye.
+
+ Sorrow and pain the Saviour knew;
+ A dark and thorny path he trod;
+ But heaven was ever in his view,--
+ That toilsome path led up to God.
+
+ Let every heart rejoice and sing;
+ Let every sin and sorrow cease;
+ Let children come this day and bring
+ Their offering of love and peace.
+
+
+THE MINISTRY OF PAIN.
+
+ Cease, my complaining spirit, cease;
+ Know 'tis a Father's hand you feel;
+ It leads you to the realms of peace;
+ It kindly only wounds to heal.
+
+ My Father! what a holy joy
+ Bursts on the sad, desponding mind,
+ To say, when fiercest ills annoy,--
+ "I know my Father still is kind!"
+
+ This bids each trembling fear be still,
+ Checks every murmur, every sigh;
+ Patience then waits his sovereign will,
+ Rejoiced to live,--resigned to die.
+
+ O blessed ministry of pain!
+ To teach the soul its real worth;
+ To lead it to that source again,
+ From whence it first derived its birth.
+
+
+"BY FAITH YE ARE SAVED."
+
+ Christian! when, overwhelmed with grief and care,
+ Thou prayest for the help that thou dost need,
+ As shipwrecked mariner for life will plead,
+ O, then for faith pour forth the fervent prayer!
+ 'Tis faith alone life's heavy ills can bear.
+ O, mark her calm, far-seeing, quickening eye,
+ Full of the light of immortality!
+ It tells of worlds unseen, and calls us there;
+ That look of hers can save thee from despair.
+
+ When sorrow, like thick darkness, gathers round,
+ And all life's flowers are fading in the dust,
+ Faith lifts our drooping vision from the ground,--
+ Says, that the hand that smites us yet is just;
+ That human agony hath ever found
+ The mighty God a never-failing trust.
+
+
+EVENING PRAYER.
+
+ Great Source of being,
+ Father all-seeing!
+ We bow before thee;
+ Our souls adore thee;
+ Help us obey thee;
+ Guide us aright;
+ Keep us, we pray thee,
+ Through the long night.
+
+ Thou kind, forgiving
+ God of all living,
+ Thy power defend us,
+ Thy peace attend us,
+ While we are closing
+ This day in prayer,
+ Ever reposing
+ Under thy care.
+
+
+EVENING HYMN.
+
+ Before I close my eyes to-night,
+ Let me myself these questions ask:--
+ Have I endeavoured to do right,
+ Nor thought my duty was a task?
+
+ Have I been gentle, lowly, meek,
+ And the small voice of conscience heard?
+ When passion tempted me to speak,
+ Have I repressed the angry word?
+
+ Have I with cheerful zeal obeyed
+ What my kind parents bid me do,
+ And not by word or action said
+ The thing that was not strictly true?
+
+ In hard temptation's troubled hour,
+ Then have I stopped to think and pray,
+ That God would give my soul the power
+ To chase the sinful thought away?
+
+ O Thou who seest all my heart,
+ Wilt thou forgive and love me still!
+ Wilt thou to me new strength impart,
+ And make me love to do thy will!
+
+
+LINES WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF A.G. EBERHARD.
+
+ The sun in smiles doth dress his face,
+ As evening comes to take his place;
+ So looks the parting loved-one, when
+ He means to quickly come again.
+
+ With moon and stars all sparkling bright,
+ Advances now the silent night;
+ And with the calm and gentle moon,
+ Sweet peace doth quietly come on.
+
+ Who at the moon and stars can gaze
+ Without a gush of love and praise?
+ And now it is the midnight hour,
+ And sleep asserts her soothing power.
+
+ But see, the flickering light is gone,
+ That from my neighbour's window shone;
+ His simple household prayer is said,
+ He rests from toil, on his hard bed.
+
+ Yet still the watchman wakes, and still
+ Faithful till morning watch he will;
+ But vain, O watchman! is thy care,
+ If God, the Guardian, be not there.
+
+ By my dull lamp, whose light's near gone,
+ In my small room I sit alone,
+ And, thinking o'er past joys and pain,
+ A sweet contentment doth remain.
+
+ He's still my trust; he, the true Shepherd, never
+ Will forsake his sheep,--he watcheth ever;
+ The mother may forget her child, but yet
+ Thus saith the Lord,--"Thee I will not forget."
+
+ I rest in peace, I trust in Thee;
+ Thy faithful eye still watcheth me;
+ For He who ever wakes and lives
+ To loving hearts no night e'er gives.
+
+
+"HOPE IN GOD."
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF S.A. MAHLMAN.
+
+ Hope, my heart, in patience hope,--
+ Thou at last thy flowers shalt gather;
+ God is full of tender love,--
+ Childlike speak thou to thy Father.
+ From believing, trusting hearts,
+ The God of mercy ne'er departs.
+
+ Clouds may come, and clouds may go,
+ Rest upon his goodness always;
+ To those joyful, sunny heights
+ Lead these rough and gloomy pathways;
+ Wakes for aye his Eye of Light,--
+ Tremble not in storm and night.
+
+ Anchored on the Eternal Rock,
+ To the heart of God fast clinging,
+ Tell him all thy deepest woes,
+ Before him all thy sorrows bringing;
+ He is kind, and comfort gives
+ To every sorrowing heart that lives.
+
+ Let true faith strong courage give;
+ Strength the Helper now is sending;
+ Soon thou'lt understand His ways,
+ Soon thou'lt find thy sorrows ending.
+ God! who life and goodness art!
+ In patience hope in Him, my heart.
+
+
+FAILURE AND SUCCESS.
+
+ It is in failure, in distress,
+ When, reft of all, it stands alone,
+ And not in what men call success,
+ The noble, valiant soul is known.
+
+ He who perfection makes his aim
+ Shoots at a mark he may not reach;
+ The world may laugh, the world may blame.
+ And what it calls _discretion_ preach.
+
+ And he will fail to win the goal
+ Which low ambition makes its own;
+ But, far beyond, his earnest soul
+ Stands in the light, though all alone.
+
+ It was through insult, pain, and loss
+ That Jesus won immortal power;
+ Thus the great failure of the cross
+ Was his triumphant, glorious hour.
+
+ Think not of failure or success;
+ He fails who has a low desire.
+ Up to the highest ever press,
+ Still onward, upward, higher! higher!
+
+ Make such thy purpose, such thy aim,
+ That they who watch thy spirit's flight
+ Shall look to heaven from whence it came,
+ And loose thee in celestial light.
+
+
+
+
+SONGS.
+
+
+THE LITTLE SPRING.
+
+ Beneath a green and mossy bank
+ There flows a clear and fairy stream;
+ There the pert squirrel oft has drank,
+ And thought, perhaps, 'twas made for him.
+
+ Their pitchers there the laborers fill,
+ As drop by drop the crystals flow,
+ Singing their silvery welcome still
+ To all who to the fountain go.
+
+ Then to the river on it glides,
+ Its tributary drop to bear,
+ Its modest head a moment hides,
+ Then rises up and sparkles there.
+
+ The touching lesson on my heart
+ Falls like the gentle dews of heaven,
+ Bids me with humble love impart
+ The little treasure God has given.
+
+ For from a source as small as this
+ Full many a cup of joy may flow,
+ And on the stream of human bliss
+ Its little ray of gladness throw.
+
+
+THE LITTLE BOY'S MAY-DAY SONG.
+
+ "The flowers are blooming everywhere,
+ On every hill and dell,
+ And O, how beautiful they are!
+ How sweetly, too, they smell!
+
+ "The little brooks, they dance along,
+ And look so glad and gay;
+ I love to hear their pleasant song,
+ I feel as glad as they.
+
+ "The young lambs bleat and frisk about,
+ The bees hum round their hive,
+ The butterflies are coming out,--
+ 'Tis good to be alive.
+
+ "The trees that looked so stiff and gray
+ With green wreaths now are hung;
+ O mother! let me laugh and play,
+ I cannot hold my tongue.
+
+ "See yonder bird spread out his wings,
+ And mount the clear blue skies;
+ And hark! how merrily he sings,
+ As far away he flies."
+
+ "Go forth, my child, and laugh and play,
+ And let your cheerful voice,
+ With birds, and brooks, and merry May,
+ Cry loud, Rejoice! rejoice!
+
+ "I would not check your bounding mirth,
+ My little happy boy,
+ For He who made this blooming earth
+ Smiles on an infant's joy."
+
+
+GUESS WHAT I HAVE HEARD.
+
+ Dear mother, guess what I have heard!
+ O, it will soon be spring!
+ I'm sure it was a little bird,--
+ Mother, I heard him sing.
+
+ Look at this little piece of green
+ That peeps out from the snow,
+ As if it wanted to be seen,--
+ 'Twill soon be spring, I know.
+
+ And O, come here, come here and look!
+ How fast it runs along!--
+ Here is a cunning little brook;
+ O, hear its pretty song!
+
+ I know 'tis glad the winter's gone
+ That kept it all so still,
+ For now it merrily runs on,
+ And goes just where it will.
+
+ I feel just like the brook, I know;
+ It says, it seems to me,--
+ "Good by, cold weather, ice, and snow;
+ Now girls and brooks are free."
+
+ I love to think of what you said,
+ Mother, to me last night,
+ Of this great world that God has made,
+ So beautiful and bright.
+
+ And now it is the happy spring
+ No naughty thing I'll do;
+ I would not be the only thing
+ That is not happy, too.
+
+
+SPRING.
+
+ Hark! the little birds are singing,--
+ Winter's gone and summer's near;
+ See, the tender grass is springing,
+ And the flowers will soon be here.
+
+ Who made the winter and the spring?
+ Who painted all the flowers?
+ Who taught the little birds to sing,
+ And made these hearts of ours?
+
+ O, 'tis God! how good he is!
+ He does every blessing give;
+ All this happy world is his,--
+ Let us love him while we live.
+
+
+THE LITTLE BOY'S GOOD-NIGHT.
+
+ The sun is hidden from our sight,
+ The birds are sleeping sound;
+ 'Tis time to say to all, "Good night!"
+ And give a kiss all round.
+
+ Good night! my father, mother, dear,
+ Now kiss your little son;
+ Good night! my friends, both far and near,
+ Good night to every one.
+
+ Good night! ye merry, merry birds,
+ Sleep well till morning light;
+ Perhaps if you could sing in words,
+ You would have said, "Good night!"
+
+ To all my pretty flowers, good night!
+ You blossom while I sleep;
+ And all the stars, that shine so bright,
+ With you their watches keep.
+
+ The moon is lighting up the skies,
+ The stars are sparkling there;
+ 'Tis time to shut our weary eyes,
+ And say our evening prayer.
+
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S SABBATH-SONG.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.
+
+ This is the Sabbath day!
+ In the wide field I am alone.
+ Hark! now one morning bell's sweet tone,--
+ Now it has died away.
+
+ Kneeling I worship Thee;
+ Sweet dread doth o'er my spirit steal,
+ From whispering sounds of those who kneel,
+ Unseen, to pray with me.
+
+ Around and far away,
+ So clear and solemn is the sky,
+ It seems all opening to my eye;
+ This is the Sabbath day!
+
+
+TO SPRING.
+
+ Hail! reviving, joyous Spring,
+ Smiling through thy veil of showers;
+ Birds and brooks thy welcome sing,--
+ Haste, and waken all thy flowers.
+
+ Hark! a sweet pervading sound!
+ From the breathing, moving earth
+ Life is starting all around,
+ Sending joy and fragrance forth.
+
+ O'er the oak's gigantic form
+ Blossoms hang their drapery;
+ Branches that defied the storm
+ Now are full of melody.
+
+ There is not a silent thing
+ In this joyous company;
+ Woods, and hills, and valleys ring
+ With a shout of jubilee.
+
+ Wake, my spirit! art thou still?
+ Senseless things have found a voice;
+ Shall this throbbing heart be still,
+ When all nature cries, "Rejoice"?
+
+ Wake, come forth, my bounding soul!
+ Join the universal glee,
+ Yield to nature's kind control,
+ Catch her heavenly harmony.
+
+ Join the grateful, happy throng,
+ Cast each selfish care away;
+ Birds and brooks shall tune your song;
+ This is nature's holiday.
+
+
+HER VOYAGE IS AT AN END.
+
+ Hushed was the ocean's stormy roar,
+ Still as an infant's joy;
+ There sat upon the rocky shore
+ A father and his boy.
+
+ Far off they saw a gallant ship,
+ It came from foreign lands;
+ The boy began to dance and skip,
+ And clap his little hands.
+
+ Her wished-for port is near at hand,
+ The ship is hastening on;
+ They hear the birds sing on the land;
+ Her voyage is nearly done.
+
+ The boy's glad notes, his shouts of glee,
+ The rocks with music fill;
+ But now he cries,--"See, father, see!
+ The ship is standing still."
+
+ Her masts are trembling from the shock.
+ Her white sails all descend;
+ The ship has struck upon a rock,--
+ Her voyage is at an end.
+
+ The sailors hurry to and fro,
+ All crowded is the deck;
+ She struggles hard,--she's free;--O, no!
+ She is indeed a wreck.
+
+ The boy's young heart is full of grief:
+ "Father! what will she do?
+ Let's take the boat to her relief,
+ O, quickly let us go!"
+
+ They went,--and many a stronger hand
+ Its ready succour gave;
+ They brought the crew all safe to land,
+ And the cargo tried to save.
+
+ The night comes on, the night is dark,
+ More dark the billows seem;
+ They break against the ship, and hark!
+ The seamew's mournful scream.
+
+ The boy upon his pillow lies,
+ In sweet repose he sinks;
+ And, as he shuts his weary eyes,
+ On the poor ship he thinks.
+
+ The sun shines o'er the watery main
+ As it did the day before;
+ The father and his son again
+ Are seated on the shore.
+
+ With the western wind full many a boat
+ Their white sails gayly fill,
+ They lightly o'er the blue waves float,--
+ But the gallant ship is still.
+
+ The sailors now the mournful wreck
+ Of masts and rigging strip;
+ The waves are playing o'er the deck
+ Of the sad and ruined ship.
+
+ A crow upon the top branch stood
+ Of a lone and blasted tree;
+ He seemed to look upon the flood
+ With a gloomy sympathy.
+
+ The boy now looks up at the bird,
+ At the sinking vessel now;
+ He does not speak a single word.
+ But a shade is on his brow.
+
+ Now slowly comes a towering wave,
+ And sweeps with triumph on;
+ It bears her to her watery grave,--
+ The gallant ship is gone.
+
+ Hushed is the ocean's stormy roar,
+ Still as an infant's joy;
+ The father sits upon the shore
+ In silence with his boy.
+
+_Cohasset Shore, July, 1831._
+
+
+CHARLEY AND HIS FATHER.
+
+A BALLAD.
+
+ The birds are flown away,
+ The flowers are dead and gone,
+ The clouds look cold and gray
+ Around the setting sun.
+
+ The trees with solemn sighs
+ Their naked branches swing;
+ The winter winds arise,
+ And mournfully they sing.
+
+ Upon his father's knee
+ Was Charley's happy place,
+ And very thoughtfully
+ He looked up in his face;
+
+ And these his simple words:--
+ "Father, how cold it blows!
+ What 'comes of all the birds
+ Amidst the storms and snows?"
+
+ "They fly far, far away
+ From storms, and snows, and rain;
+ But, Charley dear, next May
+ They'll all come back again."
+
+ "And will my flowers come, too?"
+ The little fellow said,
+ "And all be bright and new,
+ That now looks cold and dead?"
+
+ "O, yes, dear; in the spring
+ The flowers will all revive,
+ The birds return and sing,
+ And all be made alive."
+
+ "Who shows the birds the way,
+ Father, that they must go?
+ And brings them back in May,
+ When there is no more snow?
+
+ "And when no flower is seen
+ Upon the hill and plain,
+ Who'll make it all so green,
+ And bring the flowers again?"
+
+ "My son, there is a Power
+ That none of us can see
+ Takes care of every flower,
+ Gives life to every tree.
+
+ "He through the pathless air
+ Shows little birds their way;
+ And we, too, are his care,--
+ He guards us day by day."
+
+ "Father, when people die,
+ Will they come back in May?"
+ Tears were in Charley's eye,--
+ "Will they, dear father, say?"
+
+ "No! they will never come;
+ We go to them, my boy,
+ There, in our heavenly home,
+ To meet in endless joy."
+
+ Upon his father's knee
+ Still Charley kept his place,
+ And very thoughtfully
+ He looked up in his face.
+
+
+REMEMBER THE SLAVE.
+
+ Mother! whene'er around your child
+ You clasp your arms in love,
+ And when, with grateful joy, you raise
+ Your eyes to God above,
+
+ Think of the negro mother, when
+ Her child is torn away,
+ Sold for a little slave,--O, then
+ For that poor mother pray!
+
+ Father! whene'er your happy boys
+ You look upon with pride,
+ And pray to see them when you're old,
+ All blooming by your side,
+
+ Think of that father's withered heart,
+ The father of a slave,
+ Who asks a pitying God to give
+ His little son a grave.
+
+ Brothers and sisters! who with joy
+ Meet round the social hearth,
+ And talk of home and happy days,
+ And laugh in careless mirth,
+
+ Remember, too, the poor young slave,
+ Who never felt your joy,
+ Who, early old, has never known
+ The bliss to be a boy.
+
+ Ye Christians! ministers of Him
+ Who came to make men free,
+ When, at the Almighty Maker's throne,
+ You bend the suppliant knee,
+
+ From the deep fountains of your soul
+ Then let your prayers ascend
+ For the poor slave, who hardly knows
+ That God is still his friend.
+
+ Let all who know that God is just,
+ That Jesus came to save,
+ Unite in the most holy cause
+ Of the forsaken slave.
+
+
+HOME-SICKNESS.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+ Were I a wild, wild falcon,
+ I'd soar away on high,
+ And seek my father's dwelling,
+ Beyond the far blue sky.
+
+ Against that well-known door then
+ I'd flap my wings with joy;
+ My mother from the window
+ Sees and admits her boy.
+
+ "Dear son!" she'd say; "O, welcome!
+ How often has my heart
+ Longed sadly to embrace thee;
+ Now here behold thou art!"
+
+ Thus memory still is dreaming
+ Of what can never be.
+ My long-lost home,--the loved ones,--
+ These eyes may never see.
+
+
+HAPPINESS.
+
+ What is it makes the morning bright?
+ What gilds the evening hours?
+ What makes our hearts seem gay and light,
+ As if we trod on flowers?
+
+ 'Tis innocence that makes us gay,
+ Bids flowers grow everywhere;
+ Makes it bright sunshine every day.
+ And every evening fair.
+
+ What makes us, when we look above,
+ See smiling angels there,
+ And think they look on us in love,
+ As if we were their care?
+ 'Tis that the soul, all free from sin,
+ Glows like an inward sun;
+ And heaven above and heaven within
+ Do meet and join in one.
+
+
+CHILDREN IN SLAVERY.
+
+ When children play the livelong day,
+ Like birds and butterflies,
+ As free and gay sport life away,
+ And know not care nor sighs;
+
+ Then earth and air seem fresh and fair,
+ All peace below, above;
+ Life's flowers are there, and everywhere
+ Is innocence and love.
+
+ When children pray with fear all day,
+ A blight must be at hand;
+ Then joys decay, and birds of prey
+ Are hovering o'er the land.
+ When young hearts weep as they go to sleep,
+ Then all the world seems sad;
+ The flesh must creep, and woes are deep,
+ When children are not glad.
+
+
+TO GOOD RESOLUTIONS.
+
+ How like the morning flower ye are!
+ Which lifts its diamond head,
+ Exulting in the mead;
+ But the rude wind shall steal its gem,
+ Shall break its tender stem,
+ And leave it dead.
+
+ Frail pledges of the contrite heart,
+ Wherefore so soon decay?
+ O, yet prolong your stay!
+ Until my soul shall boldly rise,
+ And claim its native skies,
+ Haste not away.
+
+
+THANKS FOR A PLEASANT DAY.
+
+ Come, let us all, with heart and voice,
+ To God our Father sing and pray;
+ In his unceasing love rejoice,
+ And thank him for this pleasant day.
+
+ The clear blue sky looks full of love;
+ Let all our selfish passions cease!
+ O, let us lift our thoughts above,
+ Where all is brightness, goodness, peace.
+
+ If we have done a brother wrong,
+ O, let us seek to be forgiven;
+ Nor let one discord spoil the song
+ Our hearts would raise this day to heaven.
+
+ This blessed day, when the pure air
+ Is full of sweetness, full of joy,--
+ When all around is calm and fair,--
+ Shall we the harmony destroy?
+
+ O, may it be our earnest care
+ To free our souls from every sin;
+ Then will each day be bright and fair,
+ For God's pure sunshine dwells within.
+
+
+TO A BUTTERFLY.
+
+ [Those who are acquainted with this little poem, translated
+ from Herder, will perceive that a slight liberty has been
+ taken with the last two lines.]
+
+ Airy, lovely, heavenly thing!
+ Butterfly with quivering wing!
+ Hovering in thy transient hour
+ Over every bush and flower,
+ Feasting upon flowers and dew,
+ Thyself a brilliant blossom, too!
+
+ Who, with skilful fingers fine,
+ Purpled o'er those wings of thine?
+ Was it some sylph whose tender care
+ Spangled thy robes so fine and fair,
+ And wove them of the morning air?
+ I feel thy little throbbing heart;
+ Thou fear'st e'en now death's bitter smart.
+
+ Fly, little spirit, fly away!
+ Be free and joyful thy short day!
+ Image thou dost seem to me
+ Of that which I may one day be,
+ When I shall drop this robe of earth,
+ And wake into a spirit's birth.
+
+
+TO NATURE.
+
+FROM THE GERMAN OF FREDERICK LEOPOLD, COUNT OF STALBERG.
+
+ Holy nature! fresh and free,
+ Let me ever follow thee;
+ By the hand, O, lead me still,
+ Like a child, at thy sweet will.
+
+ When with weariness oppressed,
+ I will on thy bosom rest,
+ Breathe in pleasure from above,
+ In thy mother-arms of love.
+
+ O, how well it is for me
+ Thee to love, with thee to be!
+ Holy nature! sweet and free,
+ Let me ever follow thee.
+
+
+ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG COMPANION.
+
+ Farewell for a time!
+ Thou hast gone to that clime
+ Where sickness and sorrow are o'er.
+ We loved thee when here,
+ We shed the sad tear
+ To think we shall see thee no more.
+
+ We weep not for thee,
+ We remember that He
+ Who made little children his care
+ In his own fatherland
+ Will reach you his hand,
+ And comfort and welcome you there.
+
+ Our tears they will flow;
+ But do we not know
+ That thou art released from all pain?
+ Then weep not; for He
+ Who walked on the sea
+ Has said we shall all live again.
+
+
+THE SABBATH IS HERE.
+
+FROM KRUMACHER.
+
+ The Sabbath is here, it is sent us from heaven;
+ Rest, rest, toilsome life,
+ Be silent all strife,
+ Let us stop on our way,
+ And give thanks and pray
+ To Him who all things has given.
+
+ The Sabbath is here, to the fields let us go;
+ How fresh and how fair!
+ In the still morning air,
+ The bright golden grain
+ Waves over the plain;
+ It is God who doth all this bestow.
+
+ The Sabbath is here; on this blessed morn
+ No tired ox moans,
+ No creaking wheel groans,
+ At rest is the plough;
+ No noise is heard now,
+ Save the sound of the rustling corn.
+
+ The Sabbath is here; our seed we have sown
+ In hope and in faith;
+ The Father he saith
+ Amen! Be it so!
+ Behold the corn grow!
+ Rejoicing his goodness we'll own.
+
+ The Sabbath is here; His love we will sing
+ Who sendeth the rain
+ Upon the young grain.
+ And soon all around
+ The sickle will sound.
+ And home the bright sheaves we will bring.
+
+ The Sabbath is here; in hope and in love
+ We sow in the dust,
+ While humbly we trust
+ Up yonder shall grow
+ The seed which we sow,
+ And bloom a bright garland above.
+
+
+THE CHILD AT HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+ In that little room of thine,
+ Sweet sleep has come to thee;
+ Ah, mother! dearest mother mine!
+ O, call me to that room of thine!
+ O, shut it not from me!
+
+ I would so gladly be with thee,
+ And be thy child again;
+ 'Tis cold and stormy here with me,
+ 'Tis warm, and, O, so still with thee!
+ Ah! let me, let me in!
+
+ Thou took'st me gladly once with thee,
+ So gladly held my hand;
+ O, see, thou hast forsaken me!
+ Take me this time again with thee
+ Into the heavenly land.
+
+
+CHILD'S SONG.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+ When at night I go to sleep,
+ Fourteen angels are at hand;--
+ Two on my right their watches keep;
+ Two on my left to bless me stand;
+ Two hover gently o'er my head;
+ Two guard the foot of my small bed;
+ Two wake me with the sun's first ray;
+ Two dress me nicely every day;
+ Two guide me on the heavenly road,
+ That leads to paradise and God.
+
+
+TO A FOUNTAIN.
+
+FROM THE GERMAN OF RAMLER.
+
+ Lo! this fount is flowing ever;
+ But the fountain prattles never.
+ Traveller! at this fountain stay;
+ Learn of it, with pure endeavour,
+ Good to do, and nothing say.
+
+
+SONG FOR AN INFANT SCHOOL.
+
+ Children go
+ To and fro,
+ In a merry, pretty row,
+ Footsteps light,
+ Faces bright;
+ 'Tis a happy sight.
+ Swiftly turning round and round,
+ Do not look upon the ground.
+ Follow me,
+ Full of glee,
+ Singing merrily.
+
+ Birds are free,
+ So are we;
+ And we live as happily.
+ Work we do,
+ Study too,
+ For we learn "twice two";
+ Then we laugh, and dance, and sing,
+ Gay as birds or any thing.
+ Follow me,
+ Full of glee,
+ Singing merrily.
+
+ Work is done,
+ Play's begun;
+ Now we have our laugh and fun.
+ Happy days,
+ Pretty plays,
+ And no naughty ways.
+ Holding fast each other's hand,
+ We're a little happy band;
+ Follow me,
+ Full of glee,
+ Singing merrily.
+
+
+THE SUMMER.
+
+A FREE TRANSLATION OF A GERMAN POPULAR SONG.
+
+ Go forth, my heart, and seek the bliss
+ Of such a summer day as this,
+ Bestowed on all by Heaven;
+ The beauties of the garden see,
+ Behold! it is for thee and me
+ Its glories all are given.
+
+ The trees with whispering leaves are dressed,
+ The earth upon her dusky breast
+ Her robe of green is wearing;
+ The flowers are blooming far and wide,--
+ Not Solomon in all his pride
+ With them would bear comparing.
+
+ The dove from out her nest doth fly;
+ Far upward in the clear blue sky
+ The lark her way is winging;
+ Hark to the lovely nightingale!
+ With her sweet song each hill and dale,
+ And woods and rocks, are ringing.
+
+ The hen brings out her little brood,
+ The swallow finds her young ones food,
+ The stork her house is keeping.
+ The bounding stag, the timid roe,
+ Are full of joy, and to and fro,
+ Through the high grass, are leaping.
+
+ The brook is tinkling as it goes,
+ And with the myrtle and the rose
+ Its shady banks adorning;
+ While, from the flowery mead near by,
+ The sheep and shepherd's joyful cry
+ Salutes the early morning.
+
+ The never idle troops of bees
+ Fly here and there, and where they please
+ Their honey food are quaffing;
+ The sap is running up the vine,
+ Round the old elm its tendrils twine,
+ And in the sun are laughing.
+
+ And can I, may I, silent be?
+ When all God's glorious works I see
+ My soul desires to know him.
+ When all are singing I must sing,
+ And to the Highest I must bring
+ The tribute which I owe him.
+
+ Are all things here so bright and fair,
+ And has he with a loving care
+ My happy being given?
+ What, in the glorious world above,
+ Where all is beauty, all is love,--
+ What shall I be in heaven?
+
+ O, were I there! O, stood I now
+ In that great Presence! there to bow
+ In grateful love before him,
+ Then would I with the angels raise
+ One never-ending song of praise,
+ And worship and adore him!
+
+
+TO A BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
+
+ Sweet flower! so young, so fresh, so fair,
+ Bright pleasure sparkling in thine eye,
+ Alas! e'en thee time will not spare,
+ And thou must die.
+
+ The heart with youthful hope so gay,
+ That scarcely ever breathed a sigh,
+ Must weep o'er pleasures fled away,
+ For all must die.
+
+ But though the rosy cheek may fade,
+ The virtuous wish, the purpose high,
+ The bloom with which the soul's arrayed,
+ Shall never die.
+
+
+THE LITTLE SLAVE'S WISH.
+
+ I wish I was that little bird
+ Up in the bright blue sky,
+ That sings and flies just where he will,
+ And no one asks him why.
+
+ I wish I was that little brook
+ That runs so swift along,
+ Through pretty flowers, and shining stones,
+ Singing a merry song.
+
+ I wish I was a butterfly,
+ Without a fear or care,
+ Spreading my many-colored wings,
+ Like a flower in the air.
+
+ I wish I was that wild, wild deer,
+ That I saw the other day,
+ Who through the dark green forest flew,
+ Like an arrow far away.
+
+ I wish I was that little cloud
+ By the gentle south-wind driven,
+ Floating along so calm and bright
+ Up to the gates of heaven.
+
+ I'd rather be a savage beast,
+ And dwell in a gloomy cave,
+ And shake the forest when I roared,
+ Than what I am,--a slave.
+
+ My mother calls me her good boy,
+ My father calls me brave;
+ What wicked action have I done
+ That I should be a slave?
+
+ They tell me God is very good.
+ That his right arm can save;
+ O, is it, can it, be his will
+ That I should be a slave?
+
+ O, how much better 'tis to die,
+ And lie down in the grave,
+ Than 'tis to be what I am now,--
+ A little negro slave!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FABLES.
+
+
+THE HONEST BIRD.
+
+ Once on a time, a little bird
+ Within a wicker cage was heard,
+ In mournful tones, these words to sing:--
+ "In vain I stretch my useless wing;
+ Still round and round I vainly fly,
+ And strive in vain for liberty.
+ Dear liberty, how sweet thou art!"
+ The prisoner sings, with breaking heart:--
+ "All other things I'd give for thee,
+ Nor ask one joy but liberty."
+
+ He sang so sweet, a little mouse,
+ Who often ran about the house,
+ Came to his cage; her cunning ear
+ She turned, the mournful bird to hear.
+ Soon as he ceased,--"Suppose," said she,
+ "I could contrive to set you free;
+ Would you those pretty wings give me?"
+
+ The cage was in the window-seat,
+ The sky was blue, the air was sweet.
+ The bird with eagerness replied,--
+ "O, yes! my wings, and see, beside,
+ These seeds and apples, sugar, too,
+ All, pretty mouse, I'll give to you,
+ If you will only set me free;
+ For, O, I pant for liberty!"
+
+ The mouse soon gnawed a hole; the bird,
+ In ecstasy, forgot his word;
+ Swift as an arrow, see, he flies,
+ Far up, far up, towards the skies;
+ But see, he stops, now he descends,
+ Towards the cage his course he bends.
+ "Kind mouse," said he, "behold me now
+ Returned to keep my foolish vow;
+ I only longed for freedom then,
+ Nor thought to want my wings again.
+ Better with life itself to part,
+ Than, living, have a faithless heart;
+ Do with me, therefore, as you will,
+ An honest bird I will be still."
+
+ His heart seemed full, no more he said,
+ He drooped his wings and hung his head.
+ The mouse, though very pert and smart,
+ Had yet a very tender heart;
+ She minced a little, twirled about,
+ Then thus her sentiments threw out:--
+ "I don't care much about your wings,--
+ Apples and cakes are better things;
+ You love the clouds, I choose the house;
+ Wings would look queer upon a mouse.
+ My nice long tail is better far,
+ So keep your wings just where they are."
+
+ She munched some apple, gave a smack,
+ And ran into her little crack.
+ The bird spread out his wings and flew,
+ And vanished in the sky's deep blue;
+ Far up his joyful song he poured,
+ And sang of freedom as he soared.
+
+
+SOLILOQUY
+
+OF ELLEN'S SQUIRREL, ON RECEIVING HIS LIBERTY;--OVERHEARD BY A LOVER
+OF NATURE AND A FRIEND OF ELLEN.
+
+ Was that the music of the wind,
+ That whispered in my trembling ear?
+ And can I, free and unconfined,
+ Taste of the joys that still are dear?
+
+ And can I skip from tree to tree,
+ And fly along the flowery plain,
+ Light as the wind, as fleet, as free,
+ And make my winter's nest again?
+
+ O, yes! my joyful, trembling heart,
+ The song you heard from yonder tree,
+ Which made awakening memory start,
+ Was the sweet sound of Liberty!
+
+ Dear Ellen, many thanks I owe
+ For tenderest care bestowed on me;
+ But most my gratitude will flow
+ For your best gift,--sweet Liberty!
+
+ Oft in your gayest, happiest hour,
+ When all your youthful heart beats high,
+ And, hastening on from flower to flower,
+ You taste the sweets of Liberty,
+
+ The thought that you have set me free,
+ That I can skip and dance like you,
+ To your kind, tender heart shall be
+ As pure a joy as e'er you knew.
+
+ Scarce can my wakening sense believe
+ The sounds I hear, the sights I see;
+ Dear Ellen, once again receive
+ Your Squirrel's thanks for Liberty.
+
+
+THE PIN, NEEDLE, AND SCISSORS.
+
+ 'Tis true, although 'tis sad to say,
+ Disputes are rising every day.
+ You'd think, if no one did deny it,
+ A little work-box might be quiet;
+ But 'tis not so, for I did hear,
+ Or else I dreamed it, 'tis so queer,
+ A Pin and Needle in the cushion
+ Maintain the following discussion.
+
+ The Needle, "extra fine gold-eyed,"
+ Was very sharp and full of pride,
+ And thus, methought, she did begin:--
+ You clumsy, thick, short, ugly Pin,
+ I wish you were not quite so near;
+ How could my mistress stick me here?
+ She should have put me in my place,
+ With my bright sisters in the case."
+
+ "Would you were there!" the Pin replied;
+ "I do not want you by my side.
+ I'm rather short and thick, 'tis true;
+ Who'd be so long and thin as you?
+ I've got a head, though, of my own,
+ That you had better let alone."
+
+ "You make me laugh," the Needle cried;
+ "That you've a head can't be denied;
+ For _you_ a very proper head,
+ Without an eye, and full of lead."
+
+ "You are so cross, and sharp, and thin,"
+ Replied the poor insulted Pin,
+ "I hardly dare a word to say,
+ And wish indeed you were away;
+ That golden eye in your poor head
+ Was only made to hold a thread;
+ All your fine airs are foolish fudge,
+ For you are nothing but a drudge;
+ But I, in spite of your abuse,
+ Am made for pleasure and for use.
+ I fasten the bouquet and sash,
+ And help the ladies make a dash;
+ I go abroad and gayly roam,
+ While you are rusting here at home."
+
+ "Stop," cried the Needle, "you're too much,
+ You've brass enough to beat the Dutch;
+ Do I not make the ladies' clothes,
+ Ere I retire to my repose?
+ Then who, forsooth, the glory wins?
+ Alas! 'tis finery and pins.
+ This is the world's unjust decree,
+ But what is this vain world to me?
+ I'd rather live with my own kin,
+ Than dance about like you, vain Pin.
+ I'm taken care of every day;
+ You're used awhile, then thrown away,
+ Or else you get all bent up double,
+ And a snug crack for all your trouble."
+
+ "True," said the Pin, "I am abused,
+ And sometimes very roughly used;
+ I often get an ugly crook,
+ Or fall into a dirty nook;
+ But there I lie, and never mind it;
+ Who wants a pin is sure to find it;
+ In time I am picked up, and then
+ I lead a merry life again.
+ You fuss so at a fall or hurt,
+ And, if you get a little dirt,
+ You keep up such an odious creaking,
+ That where you are there is no speaking;
+ And then your lackey Emery's called,
+ And he, poor thing, is pricked and mauled,
+ Until your daintiness--O, shocking!--
+ Is fit for what? to mend a stocking!"
+
+ The Needle now began to speak,--
+ They might have quarrelled for a week,--
+ But here the Scissors interposed.
+ And thus the warm debate was closed:--
+ "You angry Needle! foolish Pin!
+ How did this nonsense first begin?
+ You should have both been better taught;
+ But I will cut the matter short.
+ You both are wrong, and both are right,
+ And both are very impolite.
+ E'en in a work-box 'twill not do
+ To talk of every thing that's true.
+ All personal remarks avoid,
+ For every one will be annoyed
+ At hearing disagreeable truth;
+ Besides, it shows you quite uncouth,
+ And sadly wanting in good taste.
+ But what advantages you waste!
+ Think, Pins and Needles, while you may,
+ How much you hear in one short day;
+ No servants wait on lordly man
+ Can hear one half of what you can.
+ 'Tis not worth while to mince the matter;
+ Nor men nor boys like girls can chatter;
+ All now are learning, forward moving,
+ E'en Pins and Needles are improving;
+ And in this glorious, busy day
+ All have some useful part to play.
+ Go forth, ye Pins, and bring home news!
+ Ye Needles in your cases muse!
+ And take me for your kind adviser,
+ And only think of growing wiser;
+ Then, when you meet again, no doubt,
+ Something you'll have to talk about,
+ And need not get into a passion,
+ And quarrel in this vulgar fashion.
+ Less of yourselves you'll think, and more
+ Of others, than you did before.
+ You'll learn, that in their own right sphere
+ All things with dignity appear.
+ And have, when in their proper place,
+ Peculiar use and native grace."
+
+ Methought the polished Scissors blushed
+ To have said so much, and all was hushed.
+
+
+LEARNED FRED.
+
+FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+ One short six months had scarcely gone,
+ When, full of all he'd learned,
+ Young Frederick, that hopeful son,
+ From college home returned.
+
+ To his paternal roof restored,
+ It was not long before
+ The learned man at table poured
+ The treasures of his lore.
+
+ "Now," said the youngster, "father dear,
+ You doubtless think you see
+ Two roasted fowls before us here;
+ But I say there are three.
+
+ "_Atqui_ these roasted fowls are two,
+ And one in two must be;
+ _Ergo_,--or logic is not true,--
+ These roasted fowls are three."
+
+ "God bless your studies!" quoth papa;
+ "'Tis just as you have said;
+ _This_ is for me, _that_ for mamma,
+ The third for learned Fred."
+
+
+LITTLE ROLAND.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.
+
+ Lady Bertha sat in the rocky cleft,
+ Her bitter woes to weep;
+ Little Roland played in the free fresh air;
+ His sorrows were not deep.
+
+ "My royal brother, O King Charles,
+ Why did I fly from thee?
+ Splendor and rank I left for love;
+ Now thou art wroth with me.
+
+ "O Milon, Milon, husband dear!
+ Beneath the waves art thou;
+ For love I have forsaken all,
+ Yet love forsakes me now.
+
+ "O Roland! thou, my dearest boy,
+ Now fame and love to me;
+ Come quickly, little Roland, come!
+ My hope rests all on thee.
+
+ "Go to the city, Roland, go!
+ To beg us meat and bread;
+ And whoso gives the smallest gift,
+ Ask blessings on his head."
+
+ Now great King Charles at table sat,
+ In the golden hall of state;
+ With dish and cup the servants ran,
+ On the noble guests to wait.
+
+ Flute, harp, and minstrelsy now tune
+ All hearts to joyful mood;
+ The cheerful music does not reach
+ To Bertha's solitude.
+
+ Before the hall in the court-yard sat
+ Of beggars a motley throng;
+ The meat and drink was more to them
+ Than flute, and harp, and song.
+
+ The king looked out, through the open door,
+ Upon the beggar throng;
+ Through the crowd he saw a noble boy,
+ Pushing his way along.
+
+ Strange was the little fellow's dress,
+ Of divers colors all;
+ But with the beggars he would not stay,--
+ He looked up at the hall.
+
+ Within the hall little Roland treads,
+ As though it were his own;
+ He takes a dish from the royal board
+ In silence, and is gone.
+
+ The king he thinks,--"What do I see?
+ This is a curious way";
+ But, as he quietly submits,
+ The rest do nothing say.
+
+ In a little while again he comes,
+ To the king he marches up,
+ And little Roland boldly takes
+ The royal golden cup.
+
+ "Halloo! stop there! thou saucy wight!"
+ King Charles's voice did ring;
+ Little Roland kept the golden cup,
+ And looked up at the king.
+
+ The king at first looked angrily;
+ But very soon he smiled:--
+ "You tread here in our golden hall,
+ As in the green woods wild.
+
+ "From the royal table you take a dish,
+ As they take an apple from a tree;
+ As with the waters of the brook,
+ With my red wine you make free."
+
+ "The peasant drinks from the running brook,
+ On apples she may dine;
+ My mother must have fish and game,
+ For her is the foaming wine."
+
+ "Is thy mother such a noble dame
+ As thou, my boy, dost boast,
+ Then surely has she a castle fair,
+ And of vassals a stately host.
+
+ "Tell me, who may her sewer be?
+ And who cupbearer, too?"
+ "My own right hand her sewer is;
+ My left, cupbearer true."
+
+ "Tell on; who are her faithful guards?"
+ "My two blue eyes alway."
+ "Tell on; who is her minstrel free?"
+ "My rosy mouth, I say."
+
+ "Brave servants has the dame, indeed;
+ But does strange livery choose,--
+ Made up of colors manifold,
+ Shining with rainbow hues."
+
+ "From each quarter of the city,
+ With eight boys I have fought;
+ Four sorts of cloth to the conqueror,
+ As tribute, they have brought."
+
+ "The best of servants, to my mind,
+ The dame's must surely be;
+ She is, I wot, the beggar's queen,
+ Who keeps a table free.
+
+ "The noble lady should not far
+ From my royal palace be;
+ Arise, three ladies, and three lords,
+ And bring her in to me."
+
+ Little Roland, holding fast the cup,
+ From the splendid hall he hies;
+ To follow him, at the king's command,
+ Three lords, three ladies, rise.
+
+ And after now a little while,
+ The king sees, far away,
+ The noble ladies and the knights
+ Return without delay.
+
+ The king he cries out suddenly,--
+ "Help, Heaven! see I aright?
+ 'Tis my own blood, in open hall,
+ I have treated with cruel slight.
+
+ "Help, Heaven! in pilgrim dress I see
+ My sister Bertha stand;
+ So pale in my gay palace here,
+ A beggar's staff in her hand!"
+
+ Lady Bertha sinks down at his feet,
+ Pale image of despair;
+ His wrath returns, and he looks on her
+ With a stern and angry air.
+
+ Lady Bertha quick cast down her eyes,
+ No word to speak she tried;
+ Little Roland raised his clear blue eyes,--
+ "My uncle!" loud he cried.
+
+ "Rise up, my sister Bertha, rise!"
+ The king said tenderly;
+ "For the sake of this dear son of thine,
+ Thou shalt forgiven be."
+
+ Lady Bertha rose up joyfully:--
+ "Dear brother! thanks to thee;
+ Little Roland shall requite the boon
+ Thou hast bestowed on me.
+
+ "He of the glory of his king
+ Shall be an image fair;
+ The colors of many a foreign realm
+ His banner and shield shall bear.
+
+ "The cup from many a royal board
+ He shall seize with his free right hand,
+ And safety and fresh glory bring
+ To his sighing mother-land."
+
+
+BILLY RABBIT TO MARY.
+
+ [Billy Rabbit was a little rabbit which a boy caught in the
+ woods, and gave to a little girl of the name of Mary. She
+ was very attentive to the little prisoner, gave him an
+ abundance of good things to eat, and tried her best to make
+ him happy; but all in vain. After many attempts, he at last
+ succeeded in making his escape, and instantly disappeared in
+ the woods. In the course of the day, the following letter,
+ sealed with a sharp thorn, was received by his friend Mary.]
+
+ Artichoke Woods.
+
+ You thought, my dear Mary, you had Billy fast,
+ But I tried very hard, and escaped you at last;
+ The chance was so tempting, I thought I would _nab_ it,--
+ It was not very naughty, I'm sure, in a rabbit.
+ O, let not your kind heart be angry with me;
+ But think what a joy it is to be free,
+ To see the green woods, to feel the fresh air,
+ To skip, and to play, and to run everywhere.
+ The food that you gave me was pleasant and sweet,
+ But I'd rather be free, though with nothing to eat.
+
+ O, how glad they all were to see me come back,
+ And every one wanted to give me a smack.
+ Dick knocked over Brownie, and jumped over Bun,
+ And the neighbours came in to witness the fun.
+ My father said something, but could not be heard;
+ My mother looked at me, but spoke not a word;
+ And while she was looking, her eyes became pink,
+ And she shed a few tears, I verily think.
+
+ To him who a hole or a palace inhabits,
+ To all sorts of beings, to men, and to rabbits,
+ Ah! dear to us all is sweet Liberty,
+ Especially, Mary, to you and to me.
+ So I hope you'll forgive me for sending this letter,
+ To tell you I'm safe, and feel so much better,
+ Cut all sorts of capers, and act very silly,
+ And am your devoted, affectionate
+
+ BILLY.
+
+
+THE OLD AND NEW SHOES.
+
+ "Good bye, get away, you ugly old things!"
+ Said a little boy once to his shoes;
+ "All stubbed are your toes, all twisted your strings,
+ You're wrinkled, one-sided, and loose.
+
+ "But here are my new ones, so shiny and bright,
+ They are almost as smooth as my skin;
+ How stiff they are, too! how straight and upright!
+ How snug my feet feel now they're in!"
+
+ So saying, he gave to his old shoes a kick,
+ And strutted with pride to the door;
+ His unkindness had cut the old shoes to the quick,
+ For nothing contempt can endure.
+
+ "Master Frank, Master Frank, stop a while, if you please,"
+ ('Twas one of the shoes he heard call);
+ "Our _soles_ cannot bear such insults as these,
+ And your pride, Sir, will soon have a fall."
+
+ Frank stood still with wonder and looked at the shoe,
+ But could not see into the matter;
+ At last he exclaimed,--"As they've nothing to do,
+ I suppose, like Poll Parrot, they chatter."
+
+ So he opened the door, and walked down the stairs;
+ His shoes were too stiff to go fast;
+ But let us observe him, and see how he fares,
+ How repentant poor Frank was at last.
+
+ His shoes were so smooth that he could but just stand,
+ So tight, that they pinched in his toes;
+ He could only sit still, and try to look grand,
+ And remember he had on new shoes.
+
+ But Fido ran in, who loved little Frank,
+ And the shoes were remembered no more;
+ They began to cut capers, but at the first prank
+ Down tumbled poor Frank on the floor.
+
+ He was a brave boy, he thought not of crying,
+ He said, "Never mind," though in pain;
+ He whistled to Fido, but there is no denying
+ He fell down again and again.
+
+ He went to his bed with his heart full of sorrow;
+ He said to the nurse,--"I should choose,
+ If you please, when I'm dressed, my good Betsey, to-morrow,
+ To put on my easy old shoes.
+
+ "See how red my toes are, and I'm all black and blue;
+ I don't like my new shoes at all."
+ "Ah! you see," answered Betsey, "what I told you was true;
+ Your shoes, Master Frank, are too small."
+
+ His old shoes he was glad in the morning to see,
+ And, forgetting his trouble and pain,
+ "How happy," said he, "my poor toes will be
+ To get into the old shoes again."
+
+ The voice of the old shoe now once more was heard:--
+ "Master Frank, will you please to attend?
+ I wish, with your leave, to say just a word,--
+ 'Tis a word of advice from a friend.
+
+ "Never part with old shoes till they part from you;
+ Let your new ones be always well tried;
+ Old shoes and old friends are far better than new,
+ And, trust me, more worthy of pride.
+
+ "Our strings and our toes are bad, we must own,
+ But they can be easily mended.
+ I have done," said the shoe, in a kind, easy tone,
+ And it gaped as the lecture was ended.
+
+ New toes and new heels now the old shoes have got,
+ New strings, too, their beauty renew;
+ Frank wears them in peace, and has never forgot
+ The words of the friendly old shoe.
+
+
+THE MONKEYS AND THE BEARS.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GELLART.
+
+ The monkeys, 'tis said, once asked of the bears,
+ How it was that their nation so much surpassed theirs,
+ And begged that the means they would graciously tell
+ By which the young bears were kept hearty and well.
+ "Perhaps it may be," said one of the mothers,
+ Who seemed more considerate and wise than the others,
+ "Perhaps," said she, trembling at even the thought,
+ "We give our dear young ones less food than we ought;
+ We may be impatient; I have really some fears
+ That we rock them too little, the poor little dears;
+ Our milk may cause fever, and their stomachs not suit,
+ Or perhaps they are weakened and injured by fruit.
+ Perhaps the whole mischief is caused by the air,
+ And who 'gainst this evil can ever prepare?
+ In their earliest years, it may poison instil,
+ And through their whole lifetime produce every ill.
+ Perhaps it may be, before we are aware,
+ They breathe in a pestilence, borne on the air.
+ Perhaps, for the nerves of us monkeys are weak,
+ In jumping, or leaping, some bone they may break
+ In their breasts." Here, for weeping, she scarcely could speak,
+ And she snatched up her little one long to her breast;
+ With such vehement love the poor victim she pressed,
+ That all its complainings and troubles were stilled;
+ Alas the poor mother! her pet she had killed.
+
+ Said the bear,--"No longer I think you need seek
+ For the cause why your young ones are sickly and weak;
+ It is not the milk, nor the fruit, nor the air,
+ Nor fault of the stomach, and 'tis no lack of care.
+ Your blind fondness it is that cuts short their days.
+ How is it that we such multitudes raise?
+ As soon as our young ones are able to run,
+ We take them out with us to play in the sun.
+ We take them through floods, through heat, and through cold,
+ And so they are healthy, and live to be old."
+
+
+THE END.
+
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+A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, with Extracts from his
+Correspondence and Manuscripts. Edited by his nephew, WM. HENRY
+CHANNING. Comprised in three volumes, of from 450 to 500 pages each,
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+We have heard that a distinguished divine, of different speculative
+religious views from Dr. Channing, has recently said,--'Channing is
+greatly needed among us at this present moment.' Behold him here! We
+doubt not that the biography thus prepared is to make a great
+impression on the age that is passing, and that is yet to
+come."--_Christian Register._
+
+SERMONS ON CHRISTIAN COMMUNION. Designed to promote the Culture of the
+Religious Affections. Edited by Rev. T.R. SULLIVAN. 12mo. pp. 403.
+Price, $1.00.
+
+This work is not confined to the subject of the Lord's Supper, but
+"forms a series of practical discourses of the persuasive kind,
+relating to repentance, or the duty of commencing the Christian
+course,--to edification, or the encouragements to progressive
+Christian improvement,--and to the eucharistic service, as affording
+exercise for all the grateful and devout affections of the heart in
+every stage of its subjection to Christian discipline."--_Preface._
+
+The following is a list of the writers:--
+
+Rev. H.A. MILES, Lowell.
+ " F. PARKMAN, D.D., Boston.
+ " S. JUDD, Augusta.
+ " F.D. HUNTINGTON, Boston.
+ " C.T. BROOKS, Newport.
+ " N. HALL, Dorchester.
+ " J.I.T. COOLIDGE, Boston.
+ " G.W. BRIGGS, Plymouth.
+ " A.A. LIVERMORE, Keene.
+ " J. WHITMAN, Lexington.
+ " J.W. THOMPSON, Salem.
+ " H.W. BELLOWS, New York.
+ " E.S. GANNETT, D.D., Boston.
+ " A.P. PEABODY, Portsmouth.
+ " J. WALKER, D.D., Cambridge.
+ " C. ROBBINS, Boston.
+ " G.E. ELLIS, Charlestown.
+ " G. PUTNAM, D.D., Roxbury.
+ " J.H. MORISON, Milton.
+ " A. YOUNG, D.D., Boston.
+ " E.B. HALL, D.D., Providence.
+ " S.G. BULFINCH, Nashua.
+ " O. DEWEY, D.D., New York.
+ " S. OSGOOD, Providence.
+ " A. HILL, Worcester.
+ " W.H. FURNESS, D.D., Philadelphia.
+ " N.L. FROTHINGHAM, D.D., Boston.
+ " E. PEABODY, Boston.
+ " S.K. LOTHROP, "
+ " C.A. BARTOL, "
+ " A.B. MUZZEY, Cambridge.
+
+"The design of the work is admirable, and we doubt not it is admirably
+executed, and will promote the best interests of our churches. We
+chanced to open at Sermon XVIII., on Christian Education, and were
+pleased to see the idea of Dr. Bushnell's celebrated book on
+'Christian Nurture' illustrated and urged in a sermon by Dr. Putnam,
+preached two years before Dr. Bushnell's book made its
+appearance."--_Christian Register._
+
+"The tone of these sermons, their living interest, their
+unpremeditated variety in unity, fit them well for this
+purpose,--close personal influence on minds of widely differing views,
+united in the one great aim of a Christian life. We shall probably
+take an early opportunity of making some selections."--_Christian
+Inquirer._
+
+"We think the volume is upon the whole one of the best volumes of
+discourses ever issued from the American press."--_Boston Daily
+Atlas._
+
+THE GOSPEL NARRATIVES, their Origin, Peculiarities, and Transmission.
+By Rev. HENRY A. MILES. 16mo. pp. 174. Price, 50 cents.
+
+This work is designed for families and Sunday Schools, and contains a
+comparison of each Gospel with the education, life, and character of
+its author, and with the purpose which he had in view in its
+composition; as also an account of the transmission of the Gospels
+down to our time, and the evidence of their uncorrupted preservation.
+
+"This volume by Mr. Miles has substantial value. It is by the
+circulation and use of such books that Christian knowledge is to be
+extended, and Christian faith confirmed. By a thorough study even of
+this small work in childhood, many persons might have the satisfaction
+of carrying through life a clear and connected idea of the biographies
+of Jesus, and of the nature of the external evidence in their favor,
+instead of remaining in vague uncertainty on the whole subject.
+Bringing into a simple and popular form, and small compass,
+information not hitherto accessible, except to a limited number of
+persons, the 'Gospel Narratives' will be interesting to the general
+reader, whether youthful or adult. It must, without doubt, be
+introduced in all our Sunday Schools, and will rank among the most
+important manuals."
+
+NAOMI; or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago. A Tale of the Quaker
+Persecution in New England. By ELIZA BUCKMINSTER LEE, Author of "The
+Life of Jean Paul." Second Edition. 12mo. pp. 324. Price, 75 cents.
+
+The first edition of this popular book was exhausted within a month
+after its publication.
+
+"Mrs. Lee has given the public a most agreeable book. Her style is
+elevated and earnest. Her sentiments, of the pure and the true. The
+characters are well conceived, and are presented each in strong
+individuality, and with such apparent truthfulness as almost to leave
+us in doubt whether they are 'beings of the mind,' or were real men
+and women who bore the parts she assigns them in those dark tragedies
+that stained this 'fair heritage of freedom' in the early days of
+Massachusetts."--_Worcester Palladium._
+
+"We have been exceedingly interested in this book, and recommend it as
+a beautiful picture of female piety and quiet heroism, set in a frame
+of history and tradition, that cannot fail to please every one
+connected, however remotely, with the land of the Puritans. The
+accomplished author of 'The Life of Jean Paul' has produced an
+American novel which we should like to see followed by others
+illustrative of the facts and manners of the olden time."--_Christian
+Inquirer._
+
+THE MARRIAGE OFFERING. Designed as a Gift to the Newly-married. Edited
+by Rev. A.A. LIVERMORE. 16mo. pp. 215. Price, 50 cents.
+
+"It was a happy thought that suggested such a volume. We were not
+aware before that there was so much and so various Christian
+literature on the subject."--_Christian Register._
+
+MARTYRIA; a Legend, wherein are contained Homilies, Conversations, and
+Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth. Written by WILLIAM
+MOUNTFORD, Clerk. With an Introduction to the American Edition, by
+Rev. F.D. HUNTINGTON. 16mo. pp. 348. Price, 75 cents.
+
+"The charm of the book lies in the elevated tone of thought and moral
+sentiment which pervades it. You feel, on closing the volume, as if
+leaving some ancient cathedral, where your soul had been mingling with
+ascending anthems and prayers. There is scarcely a page which does not
+contain some fine strain of thought or sentiment, over which you shut
+the book that you may pause and meditate.
+
+"We recommend the volume to our readers, with the assurance that they
+will find few works in the current literature of the day so well worth
+perusal."--_Christian Register._
+
+"This is really an original book. We have seen nothing for a long time
+more fresh or true. The writer has succeeded wonderfully, in taking
+himself and his readers into the heart of the age he describes. What
+is more, he has uttered words and thoughts which stir up the deep
+places of the soul. Let those read who wish to commune with the true
+and unpretending martyr-spirit, the spread of faith and endurance,
+courage, self denial, forgiveness, prayer.
+
+"Of all the treatises we have ever read on marriage, we have seen none
+so good as one here called a 'Marriage Sermon'; not that we would ask
+any couple to hear it all on their marriage day, but we commend it to
+all who are married, or intend to be. The whole book is
+precious."--_Providence Journal._
+
+"There are few religious books which breathe a finer spirit than this
+singular volume. The author's mind seems to have meditated deeply on
+the awful realities of life. In the thoughtful flow of his periods,
+and the grave, earnest eloquence of particular passages, we are
+sometimes reminded of the Old English prose writers. The work is a
+'curiosity' of literature, well worth an attentive
+perusal."--_Graham's Magazine._
+
+A TRANSLATION OF PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS, with an Introduction
+and Notes. By WILLIAM A. WHITWELL, Minister of the Congregational
+Society in Wilton, N.H. 16mo. pp. 116. Price, 50 cents.
+
+"We would express a high opinion of the book, and can assure the
+Christian reader who will compare it carefully with our common
+version, that he will rise up from the joint perusal of the two with a
+better understanding of Paul than he had before."--_Christian
+Register._
+
+CHRISTIANITY THE DELIVERANCE OF THE SOUL AND ITS LIFE. By WILLIAM
+MOUNTFORD. With an Introduction by Rev. F.D. HUNTINGTON. 16mo. pp.
+118. Price, 37-1/2 cents.
+
+"Mr. Mountford is full of warm religious feeling. He brings religion
+home to the heart, and applies it as the guide of the life."--_London
+Inquirer._
+
+SELF-FORMATION; or the History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a
+Guide for the Intellect through Difficulties to Success. By a Fellow
+of a College. 12mo. pp. 504. Price, $1.00.
+
+"The publishers have done good service by bringing forward an American
+edition of this work. It may be most unreservedly recommended,
+especially to the young."--_Daily Advertiser._
+
+"Your gift of 'Self-Formation' is truly a welcome one, and I am
+greatly obliged to you for it. It is a work of quite original
+character, and I esteem it (in common with all I know of, who have
+read it) as possessed of very rare merit. I am glad, for the cause of
+good education and sound principle, that you have republished it, and
+I wish every young man and woman in the community might be induced to
+read it carefully. It is several years since I looked into it in the
+English edition,--but I yet retain a vivid impression of the great
+delight it afforded me, and I shall gladly avail of the opportunity of
+renewing it."--_Extract from a Letter._
+
+"This is emphatically a good book, which may be read with profit by
+all classes, but more especially by young men, to whose wants it is
+admirably adapted. The American editor is no doubt right in saying,
+that it is almost without a question the most valuable and useful work
+on self education that has appeared in our own, if not in any other
+language."--_New York Tribune._
+
+THOUGHTS ON MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE. By Rev. ROBERT C. WATERSTON.
+Second Edition, revised. 16mo. pp. 302. Price, 62-1/2 cents.
+
+This book has met with a ready sale in this country, and has been
+republished in England. A London periodical, in reviewing it,
+says:--"We will venture to predict that it will soon take its place on
+the shelves of our religious libraries, beside Ware 'On the Christian
+Character,' Greenwood's 'Lives of the Apostles,' and other works to
+which we might refer as standard publications, the value of which is
+not likely to be diminished by the lapse of time or the caprices of
+fashion."
+
+"The sense of duty in parents and teachers may be strengthened and
+elevated by contemplating the high standard which is here held up to
+them. The style has the great merit of being an earnest one, and there
+are many passages which rise into genuine eloquence and the glow of
+poetry."--_N.A. Review._
+
+"The Lecture 'On the Best Means of exerting a Moral and Spiritual
+Influence in Schools,' no teacher, male or female, possessed of any of
+the germs of improvement, can read without benefit."--_Hon. Horace
+Mann, Secretary of the Board of Education._
+
+DOMESTIC WORSHIP. By WILLIAM H. FURNESS, Pastor of the First
+Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Third Edition. 12mo.
+pp. 272. Price, 75 cents.
+
+"We are glad to see this book. It is a work of great and peculiar
+excellence. It is not a compilation from other books of devotion; nor
+is it made up of conventional phrases and Scripture quotations, which
+have been so long employed as the language of prayer, that they are
+repeated without thought and without feeling. It is admirably adapted
+to the purpose for which it was written; and it may be read again and
+again with great interest and profit by any one, who desires to enrich
+his mind with the purest sentiments of devotion, and with the language
+in which it finds its best expression. Here we have the genuine
+utterances of religious sensibility,--fresh, natural, and original, as
+they come from a mind of singular fertility and beauty, and a heart
+overflowing with love to God and love to man. They seem not like
+prayers made with hands, to be printed in a book, but _real praying_,
+full of spirit and life.... So remarkable is their tone of reality and
+genuineness, that we cannot bring ourselves to regard them as
+compositions written for a purpose, but rather as the actual
+utterances of a pure and elevated soul in reverent and immediate
+communion with the Infinite Father."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+LAYS FOR THE SABBATH. A Collection of Religious Poetry. Compiled by
+EMILY TAYLOR. Revised, with Additions, by JOHN PIERPONT. 16mo. pp.
+288. Price, 75 cents.
+
+"It is simple and unpretending: and though some of the pieces are
+probably familiar to most readers, they all breathe a pure and
+elevated spirit, and here and there is an exquisite effusion of
+genius, which answers to the holiest wants of the soul.
+
+"Not only great pleasure may be derived from such a volume, but
+lasting and useful impressions. Many are keenly alive to the harmony
+of verse and the fresh outbursts of poetic feeling, who would pore
+with delight over such a volume, and many might thus be won to high
+thought and serious reflection."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+THE YOUNG MAIDEN. Seventh Edition. By Rev. A.B. MUZZEY, Author of "The
+Young Man's Friend," "Sunday School Guide," etc., etc. 16mo. pp. 264.
+Price, 62-1/2 cents.
+
+CONTENTS.--The Capacities of Woman; Female Influence; Female
+Education; Home; Society; Love; Single Life; Reasons for Marriage;
+Conditions of True Marriage; Society of Young Men; First Love; Conduct
+during Engagement; Trials of Woman and her Solace; Encouragements.
+
+"The sentiments and principles enforced in this book may be safely
+commended to the attention of women of all ranks. Its purpose is
+excellent throughout; and as it is everywhere governed by a just and
+amiable spirit, we believe it is calculated to do much good."--_London
+Atlas._
+
+"A little work, well worthy, from its good sense and good feeling, to
+be a permanent and favorite monitor to our fair
+countrywomen."--_Morning Herald._
+
+A HISTORY OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS and of Religious Education, from the
+Earliest Times. By LEWIS G. PRAY. Embellished with two Engravings.
+16mo. pp. 270. Price, 62-1/2 cents.
+
+"The author has been for a long period engaged in the cause of which
+he has now become the historian; and if ardor, perseverance, and
+faithfulness in that service qualify him to write its history, we know
+of no one to whom it could have been more properly
+confided."--_Portsmouth Journal._
+
+"A volume of great Interest to all who have at heart the subject
+discussed."--_Literary World._
+
+LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM. Essays, by HARRIET MARTINEAU. With an
+Introduction to the American Edition, by MRS. FOLLEN. Second American
+Edition. 16mo. pp. 196. Price, 62-1/2 cents.
+
+"For the principles which it inculcates, for the exalted ideal it
+presents, for the renovating spirit with which it is filled, the book
+cannot fail to be a blessing to humanity."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+EUTHANASY, or Happy Talk towards the End of Life. By WILLIAM
+MOUNTFORD. Author of "Martyria." 16mo. pp.
+
+"This is a book which will prove an incalculable treasure to those who
+are in sorrow and bereavement, and cannot be perused by any thoughtful
+mind without pleasure and improvement."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+THE CHRISTIAN PARENT. By Rev. A.B. MUZZEY, Author of "The Young
+Maiden," &c., &c. 16mo. Price, 75 cents.
+
+RELIGIOUS CONSOLATION. Edited by Rev. EZRA S. GANNETT. 16mo. Price, 50
+cents.
+
+CONTENTS.--The Good of Affliction; The Mourner Comforted; Erroneous
+Views of Death; The Departed; Death and Sleep; Immortality; Trust in
+God under Afflictions; Filial Trust; The Future Life; Friends in
+Heaven; Hope; Thanksgiving in Affliction; Trust amidst Trial; Life and
+Death; The Voices of the Dead; To the Memory of a Friend; A Prayer in
+Affliction; Duties of the Afflicted; The Mourner Blessed; Consolation;
+The Dangers of Adversity; Trust in Divine Love; The Promises of Jesus;
+The Believer's Hope; The Uses of Affliction; Time Passing; The
+Christian's Death; The Hope of Immortality; God our Father.
+
+THOUGHTS; selected from the Works of WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, D.D.
+32mo. pp. 160. Price, 37-1/2 cents.
+
+"This is a diamond of a volume, the purpose of which is well expressed
+in the following 'thought' from Channing, which is put on the
+title-page:--
+
+"'Sometimes a single word, spoken by the voice of genius, goes far
+into the heart. A hint, a suggestion, an undefined delicacy of
+expression, teaches more than we gather from volumes of less gifted
+men.'
+
+"Those who differ in theological views from the gifted Channing will
+of course find many thoughts in this little volume not to their taste.
+But those to whom any theological views have ever done much good will
+nevertheless prize the book for its thoughts. Thoughts they are, not
+faint reflections of thought. And those who would be wise above all
+things prize to know what can be thought on all sides of every
+important subject. To enrich our columns we borrow a gem or
+two."--_Chronotype._
+
+"A collection of noble thoughts, that may well take its place by the
+side of the celebrated thoughts of Pascal, which have in them more of
+metaphysics, but less that touches the human heart. It makes a
+beautiful pocket volume."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+"We have long desired to see a book of this kind, and now, from a
+slight examination, believe that it is well done. It is a beautiful
+collection of beautiful thoughts, and must be a welcome possession,
+not only for all who agree with Dr. Channing in his peculiar religious
+opinions, but for all who value lofty sentiments worthily expressed,
+and who by the influence of such thoughts would be strengthened to
+duty, or raised to a higher sphere of contemplation."--_Christian
+Register._
+
+DAVID ELLINGTON. By Rev. HENRY WARE, JR. With other Extracts from his
+Writings. 18mo. pp. 192. Price, 37-1/2 cents.
+
+"Mr. Ware has left very few things which will do so much towards
+promoting the great object for which he lived and labored. The simple
+story of the every-day life of a good man, told as these stories are
+told, finds a response in the hearts of those most indifferent to the
+great concerns of virtue and religion; it reaches and touches what
+nothing else, not the eloquent preaching of an apostle, could reach
+and touch."
+
+CHRISTIAN CONSOLATIONS. Sermons designed to furnish Comfort and
+Strength to the Afflicted. By Rev. A.P. PEABODY, Pastor of the South
+Church, Portsmouth, N.H. 16mo. pp. 320. Price, 75 cents.
+
+"We welcome with almost as much surprise as satisfaction the
+appearance of a volume of discourses as excellent as those of Mr.
+Peabody. They are rich in thought, and of a high order of literary
+merit."--_N.A. Review._
+
+THE GENERAL FEATURES OF THE MORAL GOVERNMENT OF GOD. By A.B. JACOCKS.
+16mo. pp. 94. Price, 37-1/2 cents.
+
+GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: with an Outline of
+some of its recent Developments among the Germans, embracing the
+Philosophical Systems of Schelling and Hegel, and Oken's System of
+Nature. By J.B. STALLO, A.M., lately Professor of Analytical
+Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry in St. John's College,
+N.Y. 12mo. pp. 532. Price, $1.25.
+
+"It grapples with the most abstruse problems, and tugs fiercely to
+pluck out the heart of their mystery. No difficulty is too great for
+the author to meet, and none seems able to upset his theory. In truth,
+the book is one of the most profound ever published in Boston, and
+whatever opinion may be given regarding its principles, none can
+gainsay its vigor of understanding and reach of learning. The
+pertinent question, Who reads an American book? will change somewhat
+its meaning, if American literature takes the abstruse direction
+indicated by Mr. Stallo's volume. In that event, our books will remain
+unread, not because they are too shallow, but because they are too
+deep."--_Boston Courier._
+
+MORNING AND EVENING MEDITATIONS, for every Day in a Month. By MISS
+CARPENTER (daughter of the late Dr. Lant Carpenter). 16mo. pp. 312.
+Price, 62-1/2 cents.
+
+"The compiler of this work has rendered good service to all possessed
+of Christian sympathies."--_Literary World._
+
+"We like its spirit, and believe it will prove an excellent closet
+companion for those who will faithfully use it."--_Christian
+Register._
+
+THE WORDS OF CHRIST; from the New Testament. 16mo. pp. 150. Price, 50
+cents.
+
+"The compiler has most happily collected the words of Christ, so that,
+by the slightest reference possible to the tables, every text is
+ascertained under the several heads. It will prove very beneficial to
+the Biblical scholar, clergyman, and Sunday-school
+teacher."--_Christian World._
+
+DISCOURSES ON THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT AND LIFE. By Rev. CYRUS A. BARTOL.
+Second Edition, Revised, with an Introduction. 12mo. pp. 408. Price,
+$1.00.
+
+DISCOURSES ON THE RECTITUDE OF HUMAN NATURE. By GEORGE W. BURNAP, D.D.
+12mo. pp. 409. Price, $1.00.
+
+A HISTORY OF JESUS. By Rev. WILLIAM H. FURNESS. 12mo. pp. 231. Price,
+$1.00.
+
+COMMUNION THOUGHTS. By Rev. S.G. BULFINCH. 16mo. pp. 204. Price,
+62-1/2 cents.
+
+INTRODUCTORY LESSONS ON CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. By ARCHBISHOP WHATLEY.
+18mo. pp. 131. Price, 20 cents.
+
+RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS OF A STATESMAN. By WILLIAM VON
+HUMBOLDT. 16mo.
+
+THE STARS AND EARTH; OR THOUGHTS UPON SPACE, TIME, AND ETERNITY. 18mo.
+pp. 88. Price, 31 cents.
+
+A MEMOIR OF REV. HIRAM WITHINGTON, With Selections from his Writings.
+16mo. pp. 190. Price, 50 cents.
+
+TEN DISCOURSES ON ORTHODOXY. By Rev. JOSEPH H. ALLEN, 12mo. pp. 227.
+Price, 75 cents.
+
+POPULAR OBJECTIONS TO UNITARIAN CHRISTIANITY CONSIDERED AND ANSWERED.
+In Seven Discourses. By Rev. GEORGE W. BURNAP. 16mo. pp. 166. Price,
+37-1/2 cents.
+
+CONTENTS.--The Position of Unitarianism defined. Unitarians not
+Infidels. Explaining the Bible and Explaining it away. Unitarianism
+not mere Morality. Unitarianism Evangelical Christianity. Unitarianism
+does not tend to Unbelief. Dr. Watts a Unitarian.
+
+"These topics Mr. Burnap treats with a freshness of thought which will
+render the volume acceptable to those who have a taste for reading of
+this sort, while its general merits place it in the class of works one
+would wish to see extensively circulated among those who think that
+Unitarianism has nothing to stand upon, or that it is a doctrine full
+of impiety."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF F.W.P. GREENWOOD, D.D. 12mo. pp. 400.
+Price, $1.00.
+
+"It is a profitable book for any one to read,--partly because it
+communicates information and offers instruction, but chiefly because
+its moral tone is of the healthiest kind."--_Christian Examiner._
+
+ECHOES OF INFANT VOICES. 16mo. pp. 144. Price, 50 cents.
+
+MEMOIR AND WRITINGS OF REV. JAMES H. PERKINS. Edited by Rev. WILLIAM
+H. CHANNING. 2 Vols. 12mo.
+
+A STUDY FOR YOUNG MEN; or a Sketch of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. By
+Rev. THOMAS BINNEY. 16mo. pp. 150. Price, 42 cents.
+
+HYMNS FOR THE SANCTUARY. Compiled by a Committee of the West Boston
+Society. 12mo.
+
+CHRISTIAN HYMNS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORSHIP. A Collection compiled
+by a Committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Association. Twenty-eighth
+Edition. 18mo. pp. 562. Price, 50 cents.
+
+Although this book has been published but four years, it is now used
+in _forty_ societies, and this fact is considered sufficient to show
+the estimation in which it is held, and the manner in which it has
+stood the test of comparison with other collections.
+
+The following are some of the peculiar merits of the Christian
+Hymns:--the number of hymns is very large; the variety of subjects and
+metres is very great; the hymns are better adapted for singing; the
+plan of arrangement is improved; and the price is very low.
+
+
+MANUALS FOR SABBATH SCHOOLS.
+
+LESSONS ON THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR, for Sunday Schools and
+Families. By Rev. F.D. HUNTINGTON. 18mo. Fourth Edition.
+
+QUESTIONS ADAPTED TO THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By C. SOULE
+CARTEE. 18mo. Parts I. and II. Fourth Thousand.
+
+A SCRIPTURE CATECHISM OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, stated in the Words
+of the Bible. By EPHRAIM PEABODY. 18mo. pp. 56. Third Thousand.
+
+FIRST BOOK FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Fifth Edition. 18mo. pp. 36.
+
+THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST. With Notes and Questions By Rev. THOMAS B.
+FOX. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. 18mo. pp. 261.
+
+A MANUAL ON THE BOOK OF ACTS. By Rev. THOMAS B. FOX. 18mo.
+
+THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERVICE-BOOK. By Hon. STEPHEN C. PHILLIPS, President
+of the Boston Sunday School Society. 18mo.
+
+THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SINGING-BOOK. By E.L. WHITE. Square 16mo.
+
+QUESTIONS ON THE GOSPEL NARRATIVES; their Origin, Peculiarities, and
+Transmission. By Rev. HENRY A. MILES. 18mo. pp. 18.
+
+
+JUVENILE BOOKS.
+
+THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY LEESON. By MARY HOWITT. 18mo. pp. 143.
+
+THE PLAYMATE. A Pleasant Companion for Spare Hours. Embellished with
+more than a Hundred Engravings. Large 16mo. pp. 400.
+
+HYMNS, SONGS, AND FABLES. By MRS. FOLLEN. 18mo. pp. 107.
+
+THE TWO NEW SCHOLARS, and Other Stories. 18mo. pp. 92.
+
+FIVE YEARS OF YOUTH; of Sense and Sentiment. By HARRIET MARTINEAU.
+With a Preface by MRS. FOLLEN. 18mo. pp. 255.
+
+ALLEGORIES AND CHRISTIAN LESSONS; for Children. By T.B. FOX. 18mo. pp.
+144.
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