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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pedler of Dust Sticks, by Eliza Lee Follen
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+Title: The Pedler of Dust Sticks
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+Author: Eliza Lee Follen
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+Posting Date: June 11, 2009 [EBook #4040]
+Release Date: May 2003,
+First Posted: October 19, 2001
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+THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS
+
+
+BY
+
+MRS. FOLLEN
+
+
+
+With illustrations by Billings
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+  THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS.
+  "ON THE GRAVE OF THE GOOD, GREAT MAN."
+  THE MIGHTY DEEDS OF ABC.
+  WHAT DAY IS IT?
+  THE CHILD AT HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.
+  EVENING PRAYER.
+  THE SABBATH IS HERE.
+  TO A BUTTERFLY.
+
+
+
+
+THE PEDLER OF DUST STICKS.
+
+
+One day I went to visit a friend, a lady, who came from Hamburg, in
+Germany. I was much pleased with a portrait which was hanging up in
+her room, and I was particularly struck by the ornamental drawings
+with which the picture was surrounded. They consisted of whip
+handles, canes, piano keys, mouth-pieces for wind instruments, all
+sorts of umbrellas, and many more things, of every sort, made of
+cane and whalebone. The arrangement was so ingenious, the designs so
+fanciful, and the execution so good, that nothing could be prettier.
+But what of course was of the most importance, was the face and head
+that they were meant to ornament. "What a benevolent, what a
+beautiful face!" I said. "Who is it?"
+
+"My father," the lady replied; "and he is more beautiful than the
+picture, and he is still more kind than he looks there."
+
+"What is the meaning of all these bits of bamboo and these little
+canes, so fancifully arranged around the picture?" I asked.
+
+"These little sticks," she replied, "tell the story of my father's
+success, and of the beginning of his greatness. He began his noble
+and honorable life as a little Pedler of Dust Sticks."
+
+"Pedler of Dust Sticks?"
+
+"Yes," she said; "if you would like to hear his history, I will
+relate it."
+
+I replied that nothing could please me better; that I considered the
+life of a good, great man the most beautiful of all stories.
+
+"I will tell it to you just as it was; and you may, if you please,
+repeat it for the benefit of any one."
+
+When I had returned home I wrote the story down, just as I
+remembered it, as she had given me leave to do.
+
+The Christian name of our hero was Henry, and so we will call him.
+His parents lived in Hamburg, in Germany. They were very poor. His
+father was a cabinet maker, with a very small business. Henry was
+the second of eight children. As soon as he was eight years old, his
+father, in order to raise a few more shillings to support his
+family, sent him into the streets to sell little pieces of ratan,
+which the people there use to beat the dust out of their clothes.
+
+Henry got about a cent and a half apiece for the sticks. If he sold
+a great number of these little sticks, he was allowed, as a reward,
+to go to an evening school, where he could learn to read. This was a
+great pleasure to him; but he wanted also to learn to write. For
+this, however, something extra was to be paid, and Henry was very
+anxious to earn more, that he might have this advantage.
+
+There is a fine public walk in Hamburg, where the fashionable people
+go, in good weather, to see and be seen; and where the young men go
+to wait upon and see the ladies. These gentlemen were fond of having
+little canes in their hands, to play with, to switch their boots
+with, and to show the young ladies how gracefully they could move
+their arms; and sometimes to write names in the sand. So little
+Henry thought of making some very pretty canes, and selling them to
+these young beaux.
+
+He soaked his canes for a long time in warm water, and bent the tops
+round for a handle, and then ornamented them with his penknife, and
+made them really very pretty. Then he went to the public walk, and
+when he saw a young man walking alone, he went up to him, and with a
+sweet and pleasant voice, he would say, "Will you buy a pretty cane,
+sir? Six cents apiece."
+
+Almost every gentleman took one of the canes.
+
+With the money he got for his canes he was able to pay for lessons
+in writing. This made him very happy, for it was the reward of his
+own industry and ingenuity.
+
+As soon as Henry was old enough, his father employed him to carry
+home the work to customers. The boy had such a beautiful
+countenance, was so intelligent, and had such a pleasant manner,
+that many of the customers wanted to have him come and live with
+them, and promised to take good care of him; but Henry always said,
+"No, I prefer staying with my father, and helping him."
+
+Every day the little fellow would take his bundle of dust sticks and
+little canes in a box he had for the purpose, and walk up and down
+the streets, offering them to every one who he thought would buy
+them. And happy enough was he when he sold them all and brought home
+the money to his poor father, who found it so hard to support a
+large family.
+
+All the evenings when Henry was not so happy as to go to school, he
+worked as long as he could keep his eyes open.
+
+He was very skilful, and made his canes so pretty, and he was such a
+good boy, that he made many friends, and almost always found a good
+market for his sticks.
+
+The poor fellow was very anxious to get money. Often his father's
+customers gave him a few pence. Once he came near risking his life
+to obtain a small sum. He was very strong and active, and excelled
+in all the common exercises of boys; such as running, jumping, &c.
+One day he got up on the top of a very high baggage wagon, and
+called to the boys below, and asked them how many pence they would
+give him if he would jump off of it to the ground. Some one offered
+two.
+
+"Two are too few to risk my life for," he replied.
+
+They then promised to double the number; and he was upon the point
+of jumping, when he felt a smart slap on his back.
+
+"That's what you shall have for risking your life for a few pence,"
+said his father, who, unobserved by Henry, had heard what had
+passed, and climbed up the wagon just in time to save Henry from
+perhaps breaking his neck, or at least some of his limbs.
+
+Henry was very fond of skating, but he had no skates. One day, when
+the weather and ice were fine, he went to see the skaters. He had
+only a few pence in his pocket, and he offered them for the use of a
+pair of skates for a little while; but the person who had skates to
+let could get more for them, and so he refused poor Henry. There was
+near by, at the time, a man whose profession was gambling; and he
+said to Henry, "I will show you a way by which you can double and
+triple your money, if you will come with me."
+
+Henry followed him to a little booth, in which was a table and some
+chairs; and there the man taught him a gambling game, by which, in a
+few minutes, he won a dollar.
+
+Henry was going away with his money, thinking with delight of the
+pleasure he should have in skating, and also of the money that would
+be left to carry home to his poor father, when the gambler said to
+him, "You foolish boy, why won't you play longer, and double your
+dollar? You may as well have two or three dollars as one."
+
+Henry played again, and lost not only what he had won, but the few
+pence he had when he came upon the ice.
+
+Henry was fortunate enough that day, after this occurrence, to sell
+a few pretty canes, and so had some money to carry to his father;
+but still he went home with a heavy heart, for he knew that he had
+done a very foolish thing.
+
+He had learned, by this most fortunate ill luck, what gambling was;
+and he made a resolution then, which he faithfully kept through his
+whole after life, never to allow any poverty, any temptation
+whatever, to induce him to gamble.
+
+Henry continually improved in his manufacture of canes, and he often
+succeeded in getting money enough to pay for his writing lessons.
+
+There were Jews in the city, who sold canes as he did, and he would
+often make an exchange with them; even if they insisted upon having
+two or three of his for one of theirs; he would consent to the
+bargain, when he could get from them a pretty cane; and then he
+would carry it home, and imitate it, so that his canes were much
+admired; and the little fellow gained customers and friends too
+every day.
+
+The bad boys in the city he would have nothing to do with; he
+treated them civilly, but he did not play with them, nor have them
+for his friends. He could not take pleasure in their society.
+
+Henry was a great lover of nature. He spent much of his life out in
+the open air, under the blue skies; and he did not fail to notice
+what a grand and beautiful roof there was over his head. The clouds
+by day, the stars by night, were a continued delight to him. The
+warm sunshine in winter, and the cool shade of the trees in summer,
+he enjoyed more than many a rich boy does the splendid furniture and
+pictures in his father's house.
+
+One beautiful summer afternoon he was going, with his canes on his
+shoulder, through the public promenade on the banks of the little
+bay around which was the public walk. The waves looked so blue, and
+the air was so delicious, that he was resolved he would treat
+himself to a row upon the sparkling waters; so he hired a little
+boat, and then got some long branches from the trees on the shore,
+and stuck them all around the edges of his boat, and tied them
+together by their tops, so as to make an arbor in the boat, and got
+in and rowed himself about, whistling all the tunes he knew for his
+music, to his heart's content. He went alone, for he had no
+companion that he liked; and he would have none other.
+
+At last what should he see but his father, walking on the bank.
+
+Henry knew that his father would be very angry with him, for he was
+a severe man; but he determined to bear his punishment, let it be
+what it would, patiently; for he knew, when he went, that his father
+would not like it; and yet he said, in telling this story to a
+friend, "I was so happy, and this pleasure was so innocent, that I
+could not feel as sorry as I ought to feel."
+
+Henry bore his punishment like a brave boy.
+
+It was too bad for the poor fellow to have no pleasures; nothing but
+work all the time. This was especially hard for him, for no one
+loved amusement better than he.
+
+He relished a piece of fun exceedingly. In the city of Hamburg there
+was a place where young girls were always to be seen with flowers in
+their hands to sell. He had observed that the Jews, of whom he
+bought the pretty canes, were often rude to them, and he determined
+to punish some of them. There was one who wore a wig, with a long
+queue to it. The girls had their long hair braided and left hanging
+down behind.
+
+One day this man was sitting in this flower market, with his back to
+one of these girls, and Henry took the opportunity, and before
+either knew what he did, he tied the two queues together; the young
+girl happened not to like her seat very well, and got up rather
+suddenly to change it, and off she went with the Jew's wig dangling
+behind her, much to the amusement of the spectators, and especially
+of Henry, who saw and enjoyed it all highly, though pretending to be
+very busy selling a cane to a gentleman, who joined in the general
+laugh.
+
+Lucky it was for Henry that the Jew did not discover who it was that
+had played this roguish trick.
+
+Henry saw how difficult it was for his father to support the family,
+and was very earnest to get money in any honest way. One day the
+managers of a theatre hired him to take part in a play, where they
+wanted to make a crowd. He was pleased at the thought of making some
+money to carry home; but when he went behind the scenes, and saw all
+that the actors did, he ran away and left them, caring not for the
+money, so he could but get away from such disgusting things.
+
+Thus did Henry live, working from early morning till night, going to
+school with a little of the money he had earned, when his father
+would allow him to take it; keeping himself unstained by the
+wickedness that he often saw and heard in his walks through the
+city; observing every thing worth noticing, and making friends every
+where by his honesty, purity, and kind-heartedness.
+
+At this time the French were in Hamburg, provisions were dearer than
+ever, and Henry's father, with all the help he received from his
+son, could not support his family in the city.
+
+One day he called Henry, and said, "Do you think you could support
+your mother and younger sister and brother in some other place?"
+Henry replied directly, "Yes, dear father, I can; at least, I will
+try." So his father sent him with this part of his family to a
+cheaper place, about fifty miles inland. He gave him five dollars
+and his blessing, as they parted.
+
+Here was our friend Henry in a strange town, a small place, with no
+friends there, but just fifteen years old, and with his mother, and
+brother, and sister depending upon him for their daily bread.
+
+Henry was a brave boy; so he did not allow himself to fear. With his
+five dollars he secured small, cheap rooms for a week, bought some
+bread and milk for the family, and after a good night's sleep set
+out, the next morning, to obtain work. He went into the street, and
+after a while read upon a sign, "Furniture varnished." He went into
+the shop and asked for work. The man asked him if he could varnish
+well. Henry replied, "Yes, I can." He was very skilful, and he had
+varnished his canes sometimes, and he felt sure he could.
+
+"You came from Hamburg?"
+
+"Yes, sir."
+
+"Perhaps you know some new and better way than we have of
+varnishing?"
+
+"What method do you take?" asked Henry.
+
+The man told him.
+
+Here Henry's habit of observing was the means of his getting bread
+for himself and family. He had noticed a new and better way that
+varnishers employed in Hamburg, and though he had not tried it with
+his own hands, he was sure he could imitate what he had seen. He
+said that he knew a better way. The man engaged him for a week, and
+was much pleased with his work; he did not want him long, but gave
+him a recommendation when he parted with him.
+
+After this Henry went to the baker of whom he had bought bread for
+the family, and asked him for employment. The baker told him he
+wanted his house painted, and asked him if he could do it.
+
+"Yes," said Henry, "I can do it well, I know."
+
+The baker liked him very much, and gave him the job without any
+hesitation.
+
+The baker's apprentices had noticed what a good fellow Henry was,
+and would often give him, in addition to the loaf for the family,
+some nice cakes to carry home. So he was, as you see, now working
+among friends.
+
+Henry had never painted before; but he had observed painters at
+their work, and he did it well. He soon became known to all the
+people of the town, and made many friends. He was never idle. He
+made canes when he had no other work. He varnished, or painted, or
+did anything that he could get to do, and supported the whole family
+comfortably for two years.
+
+At the end of this time, his father sent to him to bring the family
+home to Hamburg. Henry left without a single debt, and in the place
+of the five dollars carried home ten to his father.
+
+I must tell you of a piece of Henry's economy and self-denial. He
+grew very fast, and his boots became too small for him. While he was
+getting every thing comfortable for others, he denied himself a pair
+of new boots, and used to oil the old ones every time he put them
+on, so as to be able to get his feet into them, and never complained
+of the pain.
+
+Our hero--for I am sure he was a true hero--was now seventeen. The
+French had left Hamburg when he returned, but it was still necessary
+to have a body of soldiers to protect it, and he joined a corps of
+young men. They made him distributer of provisions. His office was
+one given only to those known to be honest and worthy of confidence.
+The citizens began even then to show their respect for the little
+pedler of dust sticks and canes. We shall see what he was yet to be.
+
+Henry returned to cane-making, to which he and his father soon added
+work in whalebone. They were pretty successful, but, as they had
+very little money to purchase stock and tools, could not make a
+great business.
+
+It was about this time that Henry became acquainted with one who was
+to form the greatest happiness of his life. There was a poor girl in
+Hamburg who was a seamstress, and who not only supported herself but
+her mother by her needle. Her name was Agatha. She had a lovely face
+and very engaging manners; her character was still more lovely than
+her face; and she had only these to recommend her, for she was very
+poor. Henry became strongly attached to her, and she soon returned
+his love.
+
+Henry's father and mother did not approve of this connection because
+the girl was very poor; and as their son was so handsome and
+agreeable, had now many friends, and was very capable, they thought
+that he might marry the daughter of some rich man perhaps, and so
+get some money. But, although Henry was ready to jump from a wagon
+twenty feet high for a few pence, and would walk the streets of the
+city twelve hours a day for money, he would not so disgrace himself
+as to give that most precious of all things, his heart, for gold,
+and so he told his parents.
+
+"I shall," said he, "marry my dear Agatha, or I shall never marry
+any one. She is good, and gentle, and beautiful; and if I live, she
+shall have money enough too, for I can and will earn it for her. I
+shall work harder and better now than I ever did before, because I
+shall be working for one whom I love so dearly."
+
+Henry's parents saw that it was in vain to oppose him, that it would
+only drive him out of the house, and that they should thus lose him
+and his work too; so they gave the matter up.
+
+From this time Henry worked more industriously, if possible, than
+ever. He did the same for his father as before; but he contrived
+also to find some hours in which he might work for himself
+exclusively. All that he earned at these times he devoted to his new
+and dearest friend. He would purchase with the money he earned some
+pretty or comfortable thing to wear that she wished and had denied
+herself; or sometimes he would get some nice thing for her to eat;
+for she had delicate health, and but little appetite.
+
+After work was done in the shop, and the family had gone to bed,
+Henry used to hasten to his dear Agatha, and pass two or three happy
+hours with her. They both had fine voices, and many an hour they
+would sing together, till they would forget the weariness of the
+day, and the fact that they had nothing but their love for each
+other to bless themselves with in this world. They worked harder,
+they denied themselves more than ever, they were more careful to be
+wise and good for the sake of each other; and so their love made
+them better as well as happier.
+
+At last, when Henry was nineteen, his parents consented to his
+marrying and bringing his wife home to their house. As there was no
+money to spare, they could only have a very quiet wedding. They were
+married with-out any parade or expense, and never were two
+excellent beings happier than they.
+
+The young wife made herself very useful in her husband's family. She
+worked very hard,--her husband thought harder than she ought to
+work,--and he was anxious to be independent, and have a house of his
+own, where he could take more care of her, and prevent her injuring
+herself by labor.
+
+There was some money due his father in Bremen; and, after living at
+home a year or so, Henry took his wife with him, and went there to
+collect the money.
+
+There they lived two years, and there they suffered severely. They
+were very poor, and they met with misfortunes. At last Henry's wife
+and their two children took the small-pox; but they all lived and
+got well, and their love for each other was only made more perfect
+by suffering; for they learned patience and fortitude, and were
+confirmed in what they both before believed, that they could bear
+any trouble if they could share it together.
+
+At the end of the two years, they returned to Hamburg. During their
+absence, Henry's mother had died, and his father had married a woman
+who had a little property.
+
+Henry now felt no longer anxious about his family, and set up for
+himself in the cane and whalebone business. He took a small house,
+just big enough for his family, and they invited his wife's sister
+to live with them and assist in the work.
+
+Henry was very desirous of setting up a cane and whalebone factory,
+and doing business upon a larger scale, but had not the means to
+obtain suitable machinery. He wanted a large boiler, but it was too
+expensive, and he knew not what to do. Here his excellent character
+was the cause of his success. A gentleman who had known him from the
+time when he used to carry about dust sticks to sell came forward
+and offered him a large boiler, and told him that he might pay for
+it whenever he could conveniently. Henry accepted the kind offer,
+and commenced business directly.
+
+His old customers all came to him, and in a short time he was able
+to hire a man to help him. It was not long before he wanted another,
+and then another man. Every thing prospered with him. He made money
+fast. His business grew larger constantly. He did all sorts of work
+in whalebone and cane; now he added ivory, umbrella sticks, keys for
+pianos, canes, and whip handles, and made all sorts of things in
+which these materials are used.
+
+Henry was so well acquainted with his business, so industrious and
+faithful, was known to be so honest and just in his dealings, and
+was so kind in his treatment of his workmen, that all who wanted
+what he could supply went to him, and his success was very great. He
+grew rich. It was not a great while before he was able to build a
+large factory in the neighborhood of the city.
+
+The little pedler of dust sticks was now one of the richest men in
+Hamburg. He had four hundred men in his employ, had a large house in
+town, and another in the country. He was thus able to indulge his
+love for nature. After a hard day's work, he could come home and
+enjoy the beautiful sunset, and look at the moon and stars in the
+evening, and hear the nightingale sing, and join with his Agatha in
+the song of praise to the Giver of all good things.
+
+Henry did not, because he was rich, lead a lazy and selfish life. He
+still worked with his own hands, and thus taught his workmen
+himself, and made their work more easy and agreeable by his presence
+as well as by his instructions. He was continually making
+improvements in his business, inventing new things, and so keeping
+up his reputation. He exported large quantities of the articles made
+in his factory. Every year his business grew larger, and he gained
+still higher reputation.
+
+Henry's fellow-citizens offered him some of the highest offices of
+honor and profit which the city had to bestow; but he refused them.
+The only ones he accepted were those that gave no pay. He was one of
+the overseers of the poor, and was always one of the first to aid,
+in any way he could, plans for the benefit of his suffering
+fellow-beings. He gave money himself generously, but was very anxious
+not to have his charities made public.
+
+He was one of the directors of the first railroad from Hamburg.
+
+He engaged all his workmen with reference to their character as well
+as their capacity, and no one of them ever left him. He was their
+best benefactor and friend.
+
+So lived this excellent man, as happy as he was good and useful, for
+sixteen years with his dear wife; they had seven living children;
+but, as I before told you, she had very delicate health, and it was
+the will of God that these two loving hearts should be separated in
+this world, as we hope, to meet in heaven to part no more. After
+sixteen years of perfect love and joy, he parted with his dear
+Agatha.
+
+Henry bore his sorrow meekly and patiently. He did not speak, he
+could not weep; but life was never again the same thing to him; he
+never parted for a moment with the memory of his loving and
+dearly-beloved wife. He was then only thirty-five years old, but he
+never married again; and when urged to take another wife, he always
+replied, "I cannot marry again." He felt that he was married forever
+to his dear Agatha.
+
+I must relate to you some of the beautiful things Henry's daughter
+told me about her mother. Agatha had such a refined and beautiful
+taste and manner that though, from her parents' poverty, she had not
+had the benefit of an education, yet it was a common saying of the
+many who knew her, that she would have graced a court. She never
+said or did any thing that was not delicate and beautiful. Her
+dress, even when they were very poor, had never a hole nor a spot.
+She never allowed any rude or vulgar thing to be said in her
+presence without expressing her displeasure. She was one of nature's
+nobility. She lived and moved in beauty as well as in goodness.
+
+When she found she was dying, she asked her husband to leave the
+room, and then asked a friend who was with her to pray silently, for
+she would not distress her husband; and so she passed away without a
+groan, calmly and sweetly, before he returned. An immense procession
+of the people followed her to the grave, to express their admiration
+of her character and their sorrow for her early death. There were in
+Hamburg, at that time, two large churches, afterwards burned down at
+the great fire, which had chimes of bells in their towers. These
+bells played their solemn tones only when some person lamented by
+the whole city died. These bells were rung at the funeral of Agatha.
+
+Henry, ever after his separation from her, would go, at the
+anniversary of her birth and death, and take all his children and
+grand-children with him to her grave. They carried wreaths and
+bouquets of flowers, and laid them there; and he would sit down with
+them and relate some anecdote about their mother.
+
+It is a custom with the people of Germany to strew flowers on the
+graves of their friends. The burying ground was not far from the
+street, and often unfeeling boys would steal these sacred flowers;
+but not one was ever stolen from the grave of Agatha.
+
+The sister of whom we have before spoken, whom we will call also by
+her Christian name, Catharine, loved her sister with the most
+devoted love, and when Agatha was dying, promised her that she would
+be a mother to her children, and never leave them till they were
+able to take care of themselves.
+
+She kept her word. She refused many offers of marriage, which she
+might have been disposed to accept, and was a true mother to her
+sister's children, till they were all either married or old enough
+not to want her care. Then, at the age of fifty, aunt Catharine
+married a widower, who had three children, who wanted her care.
+
+From the time Henry lost his dear wife, he devoted himself not only
+more than ever to his children, but also to the good of his workmen.
+He sought in duty, in good works, for strength to bear his heavy
+sorrow; so that death might not divide him from her he loved, but
+that he might be fitting himself for an eternal union with her in
+heaven.
+
+Henry never forgot that he had been obliged to work hard for a
+living himself, and he also remembered what had been his greatest
+trials in his days of poverty. He determined to save his workmen
+from these sufferings as much as possible.
+
+He recollected and still felt the evils of a want of education. He
+could never forget how with longing eyes he had used to look at
+books, and what a joy it had been to him to go to school; and he
+resolved that his children should be well instructed. The garden of
+knowledge, that was so tempting to him, and that he was not allowed
+to enter, he resolved should be open to them. He gave them the best
+instructors he could find, and took care that they should be taught
+every thing that would be useful to them--the modern languages,
+music, drawing, history, &c.
+
+Henry had found the blessing of being able to labor skilfully with
+his hands; so he insisted that all his children should learn how to
+work with their own hands.
+
+"My daughters," he said, "in order to be good housewives, must know
+how every thing ought to be done, and be able to do it. If they are
+poor, this will save them from much misery, and secure them comfort
+and respectability."
+
+He insisted that those of his sons who engaged in his business
+should work with the workmen, wear the same dress, and do just as
+they did; so that the boys might be independent of circumstances,
+and have the security of a good living, come what would. Thus every
+one of his children had the advantages which belong to poverty as
+well as those of riches. Their father said to them, that if they
+knew what work was, they would know what to require of those who
+labored for them; that they would have more feeling for laborers,
+and more respect for them.
+
+Henry was truly the friend of his workmen. He gave them time enough
+to go to school. He encouraged temperance; he had a weak kind of
+beer, made of herbs, for them to drink, so that they might not
+desire spirit. He gave them, once a year, a handsome dinner, at
+which he presided himself. He encouraged them to read, and helped
+them to obtain books. He had a singing master, and took care that
+every one who had a voice should be taught to sing. He bought a
+pianoforte for them, and had it put in a room in the factory, where
+any one, who had time, and wished to play, could go and play upon
+it; and he gave them a music teacher.
+
+He did every thing he could to make their life beautiful and happy.
+He induced them to save a small sum every week from their wages, as
+a fund to be used when any one died, or was sick, or was married, or
+wanted particular aid beyond what his wages afforded.
+
+Henry's factory was the abode of industry, temperance, and
+cheerfulness. The workmen all loved him like a brother. It was his
+great object to show them that labor was an honorable thing, and to
+make laborers as happy as he thought they ought to be.
+
+Henry was much interested in all that related to the United States
+of America; and he was very angry at our slavery. He felt that
+slavery brought labor into discredit, and his heart ached for the
+poor slaves, who are cut off from all knowledge, all improvement.
+Nothing excited in him such a deep indignation, nothing awaked such
+abhorrence in his heart, as the thought of a man's receiving the
+services of another without making adequate compensation; or the
+idea of any man exercising tyranny over his brother man.
+
+Henry's workmen were the happiest and best in Hamburg. They loved
+their employer with their whole hearts; there was nothing they would
+not do for him. When his factory had been established twenty-five
+years, the workmen determined to have a jubilee on the occasion, and
+to hold it on his birthday. They kept their intention a secret from
+him till the day arrived; but they were obliged to tell his
+children, who, they knew, would wish to make arrangements for
+receiving them in such a way as their father would approve of, if he
+knew of it.
+
+It was summer time; and on Henry's birthday, at seven o'clock in the
+morning, (for they knew their friend was an early riser,) a strain
+of grand and beautiful music broke the stillness of the early hour,
+and a long procession of five hundred men was seen to wind around
+the house.
+
+The musicians, playing upon their fine wind instruments, and dressed
+very gayly, came first. Then came those of his workmen who had been
+with him twenty-five years; then his clerks and book-keepers; then
+followed his other workmen, and then all the boys who were employed
+in his factory. All wore black coats, with a green bow pinned on the
+breast.
+
+They drew up in a circle on the lawn before his house; and five old
+men, who had been with him for twenty-five years, stood in the
+centre, holding something which was wrapped up in the Hamburg flag.
+Now all the musical instruments played a solemn, religious hymn.
+Immediately after, the five hundred voices joined in singing it.
+Never did a truer music rise to heaven than this; it was the music
+of grateful, happy hearts.
+
+When the hymn was sung, the book-keeper came forward and made an
+address to his master, in the name of them all. In this address they
+told Henry how happy he had made them; how much good he had done
+them; how sensible they were of his kindness to them, and how full
+of gratitude their hearts were towards him. They expressed the hope
+that they should live with him all their lives.
+
+Now the old men advanced, and uncovered what they bore in their
+hands. It was a fine portrait of their benefactor, in a splendid
+frame. The picture was surrounded on the margin by fine drawings,
+arranged in a tasteful manner, of all the various articles which
+were made in his factory, views of his warehouses in Hamburg, of the
+factory in which they worked, of his house in town, of the one in
+the country where they then were, and of the old exchange, where he
+used to stand when he sold canes and dust sticks. Then the old men
+presented to him the picture, saying only a few words of respectful
+affection.
+
+The good man shed tears. He could not speak at first. At last he
+said, that this was the first time in his life that he regretted
+that he could not speak in public; that if he had ever done any
+thing for them, that day more than repaid him for all. They then
+gave him three cheers. They now sang a German national tune, to
+words which had been written for the occasion.
+
+The children, who, as I told you, knew what was to happen, had
+prepared a breakfast for these five hundred of their father's
+friends. All the tables were spread in the garden behind the house,
+and Henry desired that all the store rooms should be opened, and
+that nothing should be spared.
+
+After an excellent breakfast, at which the children of the good man
+waited, the procession marched around to the fine music; and the
+workmen, having enjoyed themselves all the morning to their hearts'
+content, went to partake of a dinner which the family had provided
+for them in a large farm house. Here they sang, and laughed, and
+told stories till about eight o'clock in the evening, when they
+returned by railway to Hamburg, in a special train which the
+railroad directors ordered, free of expense, out of respect for
+Henry. The railroad was behind Henry's house, and as the workmen
+passed, they waved their hats and cheered him and the family till
+they were out of hearing.
+
+The picture I had so much admired was a copy of this very picture
+which the workmen had presented. The original was hung up in Henry's
+drawing room, as his most valuable possession. No wonder his
+daughter felt proud of that picture, and loved to show her copy of
+it to her friends. Near it hung a likeness of his dear Agatha. She
+was very beautiful. It was a pleasant thing to hear the daughter
+talk of her father and mother.
+
+Thus did Henry live a useful, honorable, and happy life--the natural
+result of his industry, perseverance, uprightness, and true
+benevolence. Like Ben Adhem, he had shown his love to God by his
+love to man.
+
+One of Henry's sons had come to this country, to set up a cane and
+whalebone factory in New York. The father had aided him as far as he
+thought best, but urged him to depend as far as possible upon his
+own industry and ability.
+
+This son followed his father's example, and was very successful; but
+was obliged, on account of the bad effects of our climate upon his
+health, to return to his native land. The father, who was anxious to
+visit the United States, and wished much to see his daughter again,
+who was particularly dear to him, determined to come, for a while,
+in his son's place. Henry thought also that his health, which began
+to fail, might be benefited by a sea voyage.
+
+One reason why he wished much to visit America was, that he might
+see, with his own eyes, the position of the laboring classes in the
+Free States. Of the Slave States he never could think with patience.
+His daughter told me that the only time when she had seen her father
+lose his self-command, was when a gentleman, just returned from the
+West Indies, had defended slavery, and had said that the negroes
+were only fit to be slaves. Henry's anger was irrepressible, and,
+although it was at his own table, and he was remarkable for his
+hospitality and politeness, he could not help showing his
+indignation.
+
+Nothing could exceed his delight at what he saw in this part of our
+country. The appearance every where of prosperity and comfort; the
+cheerful look of our mechanics and laborers; their activity; the
+freedom and joyousness of their manners,--all spoke to him of a
+free, prosperous, and happy people.
+
+He was only, for any long time, in New York, where his son's factory
+was, and in Massachusetts, where his daughter lived. Unhappily his
+health did not improve. On the contrary, it failed almost daily.
+Still he enjoyed himself much. While in this part of the country, he
+took many drives around the environs of Boston with his daughter,
+and expressed the greatest delight at the aspect of the country,
+particularly at the appearance of the houses of the farmers and
+mechanics.
+
+He found, when in the city of New York, that attention to business
+was too much for his strength; so he resolved to travel. "Nature,"
+he said, "will cure me; I will go to Niagara."
+
+He brought with him, as a companion and nurse, his youngest son, a
+lad of fifteen years of age. The boy went every where with him. When
+they arrived at Niagara, Henry would not go to the Falls with any
+other visitors; he only allowed his son to accompany him. When he
+first saw this glorious wonder of our western world, he fell on his
+knees and wept; he could not contain his emotion. He was a true
+worshipper of Nature, and he courted her healing influences; but he
+only found still greater peace and health of mind; his bodily health
+did not return.
+
+His daughter, who, like all Germans, held a festival every
+Christmas, wrote to urge him to pass his Christmas with her at her
+Massachusetts home; he was then in New York. He replied that he was
+too ill to bear the journey at that season. The pleasure of the
+thought of her Christmas evening was gone; but she determined to
+make it as pleasant as she could to her husband and children, though
+her thoughts and her heart were with her sick father.
+
+In the morning, however, a telegraphic message arrived from her
+father, saying he would be with them at eight o'clock in the
+evening.
+
+With the Germans, the whole family make presents to each other, no
+matter how trifling; but some little present every one receives.
+Henry's little granddaughter was dressed in a style as fairy-like as
+possible, and presented her grandfather with a basket of such fruits
+as the season would allow of, as the most appropriate present for a
+lover of Nature. A very happy evening the good man had with his
+children.
+
+He was forced to return to New York. It was not many months after
+that his daughter heard that he was very ill at Oyster Bay, where he
+had gone to a water cure establishment. She went immediately to him,
+and remained with him, nursing him, and reading to him, till he was
+better, though not well.
+
+During this period, when he was able to bear the fatigue, his
+daughter drove him in a gig round the neighboring country; and she
+told me that such was his interest in the laborers, that he would
+never pass one without stopping, and asking him questions about his
+mode of working, &c. He could not speak English; but she was the
+interpreter.
+
+At last he insisted upon his daughter's returning to her family.
+There was something so solemn, so repressed, in his manner, when he
+took leave of her, that she was afterwards convinced that he knew he
+should never see her again; but he said not a word of the kind.
+
+His health grew worse; his strength failed daily; and he determined
+to return to Germany, so as to die in his native land. He wrote to
+his daughter, to ask her, as a proof of her love for him, not to
+come to say farewell. She was ill at the time, and submitted with a
+sad and aching heart.
+
+She had seen her dear, excellent father for the last time. He lived
+to arrive in Hamburg. His workmen, when they heard of his arrival,
+went to the vessel, and bore him in their arms to his country house,
+where he died eight days afterwards.
+
+He showed his strong and deep love of nature in these his last
+hours; for when he was so weak as to be apparently unconscious of
+the presence of those he loved, he begged to be carried into his
+garden, that he might hear the birds sing, and look upon his flowers
+once more.
+
+When he knew he was breathing his last, he said to his children who
+were standing around his bed, "Be useful, and love one another."
+
+His death was considered a public calamity in Hamburg. His workmen
+felt that they had lost their benefactor and brother. His children
+knew that life could never give them another such friend.
+
+His body was placed in the great hall, in his country house, and
+surrounded by orange trees in full bloom. Flowers he loved to the
+very last; and flowers shed their perfume over the mortal garment of
+his great and beautiful soul. One after another, his workmen and his
+other friends came and looked at his sweet and noble countenance,
+and took a last farewell.
+
+In Germany, when a distinguished man dies, he is carried to the
+grave on an elevated hearse decorated with black feathers and all
+the trappings of woe; but Henry's workmen insisted upon carrying
+their benefactor and friend to his last home in their arms. Their
+sorrowing hearts were the truest mourning, the only pomp and
+circumstance worthy of the occasion; and their streaming eyes were
+the modest and unobtrusive, but most deeply affecting, pageant of
+that day. All the inhabitants followed him, with mourning in their
+hearts. Remembering Henry's love for flowers, his fellow-citizens
+made arches of flowers in three places for his mortal remains to
+pass under, as the most appropriate testimonial of their love. The
+public officers all followed him to the grave, and the military paid
+him appropriate honors. Three different addresses were delivered
+over his body by distinguished speakers, and then hundreds and
+hundreds of voices joined in singing a hymn to his praise written by
+a friend.
+
+Henry made such an arrangement of his business, and left such
+directions about it, as to make sure that his workmen should, if
+they wished it, have employment in his factory for ten years to
+come. He divided his property equally amongst his children, and
+bequeathed to them all his charities, which were not few, saying
+that he knew that his children would do as he had done, and that
+these duties would be sacred with them.
+
+Such a life needs no comment. Its eloquence, its immortal power, is
+its truth, its reality.
+
+Among the many beautiful things that were written in honor of Henry,
+I have translated these as peculiarly simple and just.
+
+
+
+"ON THE GRAVE OF THE GOOD, GREAT MAN."
+
+"Henry--, a MAN in the best sense of the term, strong in body and
+soul, with a heart full of the noblest purposes, which he carried
+out into action, without show and with a child-like mind."
+
+"To the great Giver of all things thankful for the smallest gift. To
+his family a devoted father. To his friends a faithful friend. To
+the state a useful citizen. To the poor a benefactor. To the dying a
+worthy example."
+
+"Why was this power broken in the prime of life? Why were the wings
+of this diligent spirit clipped? Why were stopped the beatings of
+this heart, which beat for all created things? Sad questions, which
+can only find an answer in the assurance that all which God wills
+for us is good."
+
+"Peace be with thee, friend and brother! We can never forget thee."
+
+     Around their father's grave the children stand,
+     And mourning friends are shedding bitter tears;
+     With sorrowing faces men are standing here,
+     Whose tender love did bear him in their arms
+     In sickness once, and now once more in death,
+     Him who protector, friend, and helper was;
+     And many eyes whose tears he wiped away,
+     Are weeping at his narrow house to-day.
+
+     When the frail vestments of the soul
+     Are hidden in the tomb, what then remains to man?
+     The memory of his deeds is ours.
+     O sacred death, then, like the flowers of spring,
+     Many good deeds are brought to light.
+     Blessed and full of love, good children
+     And true friends stand at his grave,
+     And there with truth loudly declare,
+     "A noble soul has gone to heaven;
+     Rich seed has borne celestial fruit;
+     His whole day's work now in God is done."
+     Thus speak we now over thy grave,
+     Our friend, now glorified and living in our hearts.
+     A lasting monument thou thyself hast built
+     In every heart which thy great worth has known.
+
+     Yes, more than marble or than brass, our love
+     Shall honor thee, who dwellest in our hearts.
+     These tears, which pure love consecrates to thee,
+     Thou noble man, whom God has called away
+     From work which He himself has blessed,--
+     These grateful tears shall fall upon the tomb
+     That hides the earthly garment of our friend.
+
+     O, let us ne'er forget the firm and earnest mind
+     Which bore him swiftly onward in his course;
+     How from a slender twig he built a bridge
+     O'er which he safely hastened to the work
+     Which youthful hope and courage planned.
+     Think how the circle of his love embraced
+     His children and his children's children, all,
+     His highest joy their happiness and good.
+
+     Think how he labored for the good of all,
+     Supporter, benefactor, faithful friend!
+     How with his wise and powerful mind
+     He served and blessed his native place!
+     His works remain to speak his praise.
+     How did his generous, noble spirit glow
+     With joy at all the good and beautiful
+     Which time and human skill brought forth!
+     He ever did the standard gladly gain
+     Which light, and truth, and justice raised;
+     And when his noble efforts seemed to fail,
+     Found ever in his pure and quiet breast a sweet repose.
+
+     We give to-day thy dust to dust.
+     Thy spirit, thy true being, is with us.
+     Thou art not dead; thou art already risen.
+     Loved friend, thou livest, and thou watchest o'er us still.
+     Be dry our tears; be hushed our sighs;
+     Victor o'er death, our friend still lives;
+     Takes his reward from the Great Master's band.
+     Deep night has passed away. On him
+     Eternal morning breaks. He,
+     From the dark chamber of the grave,
+     Goes to the light of the All-holy One.
+
+     Weep, weep no more! Look up with hope on high!
+     There does he dwell. He liveth too on earth.
+     The Master who has called him hence to higher work,
+     To-morrow will call us--perhaps to-day.
+     Then shall we see him once again. He, who went home
+     From earth in weakness and in pain,
+     Is risen there in everlasting joy and strength.
+     Till then we here resolve to live like him,
+     That we, like him, may die religious, true, and free.
+
+
+When any little boy reads this true story of a good, great man, I
+would have him remember that Henry began to be a good, great man
+when only eight years old. Henry began by being industrious,
+patient, and good humored, so that people liked to buy his sticks.
+Then he was faithful and true to his father, and would not leave
+him, not even for the sake of gaining some advantages. Henry used
+all his faculties, and, by making his pretty canes, he got money,
+not to buy sugar plums, but to pay for instruction. When he did
+wrong, he took his punishment cheerfully, and did not commit the
+same fault again. All the virtues which finally made him a good,
+great man he began to practise when he was only eight years of age,
+when he was really a little boy.
+
+I would have every little boy and girl who reads this story try to
+imitate him. If he is poor, let him learn to do something useful, so
+to earn money that may help his father and mother, and perhaps be
+the means of giving him a better education. If he is rich, let him
+seek to get knowledge, and let him remember those who have not as
+much as he has, like little Eva, who taught Uncle Tom. Let him
+remember that the selfish and the lazy cannot be truly happy; that
+selfishness is its own punishment in the end; that no children and
+no men are truly happy or truly good who do not obey the words of
+the noble-minded Henry on his death-bed--
+
+     "Be useful, and love one another"
+
+
+
+
+THE MIGHTY DEEDS OF ABC.
+
+A LETTER TO A LITTLE BOY FROM HIS AUNT.
+
+
+MY DEAR FRANK: I was much pleased with your writing me a letter. If
+you were to take a piece of paper, and do up some sugar plums in it,
+and send it to me, I should eat up the sugar plums, and then there
+would be nothing left but the piece of white paper; but if you take
+a piece of paper, and mark on it with a pen some crooked and some
+straight, some round and some long strokes, they tell me, though
+they make no noise, that you love me, and they seem just like little
+messengers from you to me, all with something to tell me of my dear
+little Frank.
+
+Besides, after these messengers have spoken once, there they stand
+ready to speak again as soon as I only look at them, and tell me the
+same pleasant story the second time that they did the first.
+
+If I were to put them away in a safe place for forty years, and then
+look at them, when you were beginning to be an old man, these
+crooked scratches of your pen would still talk to me of little
+Frank, as he was when I held him in my lap, and we used to laugh,
+and talk, and tell stories together.
+
+Think, then, my dear Frank, how much better it is to be able to fill
+a letter with these curious strokes to send to a friend than to have
+bushels of sugar plums to send him.
+
+Did you ever think what curious things these little letters are? You
+know the great Bible that you love to look at so much, and to hear
+father read from. All the wonderful things related in it are told by
+twenty-six little letters.
+
+It is they that tell you of the creation of the world, of the
+beautiful garden called Eden in which Adam and Eve lived; they tell
+you the sad story of their disobedience to God, and of their being
+turned out of paradise.
+
+Then they tell you all about the Israelites, or Jews, as we call
+them. In the same book, these twenty-six letters place themselves a
+little differently, and tell you the story of Joseph and his
+brethren that you were so much pleased with when your father read it
+to you, and that of David and Goliath, that you like so much.
+
+Then these same wonderful story tellers relate to you the beautiful
+history of Daniel; of that courageous, good man who chose rather to
+be torn to pieces by wild beasts than not to pray every day to God,
+and thank Him for His goodness; and how God preserved him in the
+lion's den.
+
+The wonderful story of Elijah they also tell you, and many others.
+
+But last and most interesting and wonderful of all, my dear little
+Frank, is the story of Jesus Christ and his friends called the
+apostles.
+
+These little letters have never told such a beautiful and affecting
+story as they tell you of that pure and spotless Being who was sent
+by God to teach us our duty, and to show us the way to be happy
+forever.
+
+No being ever existed on this earth who showed so much love and
+tenderness, so much goodness and humility, so much wisdom and power
+as did Jesus Christ.
+
+There, in that best of books, stand these little messengers, as I
+call them, still speaking the very words of the blessed Saviour;
+ready to comfort the poor and sorrowful; to teach patience and hope
+to the sick; to instruct the ignorant; to reprove the wicked; and
+inviting little children to come to his arms and receive his
+blessing.
+
+Do you not want to know all that they can tell you of this great and
+good Being?
+
+I could write you, my dear Frank, a letter so long that I fear you
+would be tired of reading it, about these same wonderful little
+figures; but now I dare say that you will think more of them
+yourself, and that the little book with the corners rolled up which
+contains your ABC will be more respectable in your sight.
+
+Perhaps you will, after thinking some time, ask who invented these
+wonderful letters; and then, if you do really want to know, your
+father will tell you all that is known about it, or, at least, all
+that you can remember and understand. When you are old enough to
+read about the history of letters, you will find books which will
+make you laugh by telling you that there was a time when, if you
+wanted to write "a man," you would have been obliged to draw the
+picture of a man; and, as there was then no paper like ours, you
+would have been obliged to take a piece of wood or bark to make the
+drawing on; and so the same with every thing else.
+
+So you see, if you and I had lived at that time, and you had written
+to me about your dog, your pleasant ride and the other things that
+were in your letter, you would perhaps have been obliged to get a
+man to bring me the letter, it would have been so clumsy, instead of
+bringing it yourself, folded neatly in your nice little pocket book;
+and as for my letter, only think how much room it would have taken
+up.
+
+You will say, "Why, aunt, letters are not only better than sugar
+plums, they are better than dollars."
+
+Indeed they are, my dear Frank. The knowledge that they can give,
+the blessing they can bestow, is better and more valuable than all
+the silver and gold in the whole world; for they can teach us what
+is wisdom and happiness; they can teach us the will of God.
+
+I love to think, too, of what pleasant messages they can carry
+backwards and forwards between friends, and that in a few hours
+these curious, handy little things will appear before you, my dear
+little Frank, and tell you what I have just been thinking about, and
+that I always love you, and am ever
+
+Your affectionate AUNT.
+
+
+
+
+WHAT DAY IS IT?
+
+
+It is so still that, although it is midday, one can hear the sound
+of the soft spring shower as it falls on the young and tender
+leaves.
+
+The crowing of the cock pierces the ear with his shrill note, as in
+the silent watches of the night. The song of the wren is so
+undisturbed, it is so full, and is heard so distinctly that it only
+reminds one, with its sweet music, how unusual is the silence; it
+does indeed seem but the "echo of tranquillity."
+
+There are many people in the streets, but they have a different
+appearance from usual; they are all dressed in their holiday
+garments; they look happy, but they are very calm and serious. The
+gentle shower does not seem to disturb them; it only affords an
+opportunity for reciprocal kindness.
+
+I see a venerable-looking old lady who from infirmity is obliged to
+walk very slowly. She is supported by a bright, rosy-cheeked girl
+who holds up the umbrella, and keeps back her light and joyous step
+to the slow time of her aged companion.
+
+An elegant-looking woman is leading, with great care and tenderness,
+a little girl through the mud. The lady puts her umbrella so low
+that the rain is kept from the child, but it falls upon her own gay
+clothes. The little girl must be that lady's daughter. But see! they
+stop at the door of yonder miserable-looking house. The lady cannot
+live there, surely. She gives the child a little book. The little
+girl enters alone. I see her now in the house. She is the daughter
+of the poor, sick woman who lives there.
+
+There is a trembling old man tottering along: he looks a little like
+Tipsy David, as the boys call him; but he has on a clean and
+respectable suit of black, and a weed on his hat; he is quite sober,
+but it is David; and one of the very boys that have laughed at and
+abused him when intoxicated, now respectfully offers him an
+umbrella.
+
+A fashionable young man is gallanting a lady with the greatest care
+and most delicate respect; she must be his sister, or the lady he is
+engaged to marry, he is so careful to shelter her from every drop of
+rain. No, I see her enter her door; it is my good neighbor, Miss--;
+she is one of the excellent of the earth, but she is poor, old and
+forsaken by all but the few who seek for those whom others forget.
+She has no beauty, no celebrity; there is no eclat in noticing her;
+there are those who will even laugh at him for his attention to her.
+
+Stranger than all, there are two men, violent opponents in religion
+and politics, walking arm in arm with each other. The Calvinist
+extends to him whom he considers his erring brother a kindness as if
+to a dear friend; for the Universalist is sick, and the Calvinist
+tries to protect him from the shower while exposing himself; see, he
+takes off his own cloak and puts it on him.
+
+What does all this mean? Whence is this holy stillness? What day is
+it?
+
+It is the Lord's day! All these people are returning from the house
+of prayer. It is this thought that makes the laughing girl restrain
+her gayety, and teach her steps to keep time with her infirm old
+friend.
+
+The sinful old man abstains from his vicious habit out of reverence
+for this holy day; he has lost his son too; and sorrow and the
+weight of an evil conscience have driven him to the mercy seat; and
+they who despised his drunkenness respect his misery.
+
+The lady who led the little child so tenderly to its poor mother's
+door is a teacher in the Sunday school; the book she gave tells of
+the wisdom and goodness of God; she has awakened in her little
+pupil's soul that princi-pie which shall never die, and taught her
+to be a messenger of peace and joy to her poor, sick mother.
+
+It is the influence of this blessed day that makes the usually
+frivolous and thoughtless prefer a work of charity to the
+gratification of vanity.
+
+It is the Sabbath day, with its calm and elevated duties and holy
+repose, that subdues animosity, lays the restless spirit of vanity,
+checks habitual vice, and awakens all the charities and sweet
+courtesies of life.
+
+This is the true rest of the Sabbath; the rest from vanity, from
+contention, from sin. This is the true preaching, the practice of
+Christian duties, the performance of works of love, the exercise of
+the holiest affections of our nature. This is the true service of
+God; doing good to His human family. This is the true knowledge of
+Him, "that we love one another."
+
+Doubtless the instructions from the pulpit do, in many instances,
+enlighten the ignorant, quicken the languid and the cold-hearted,
+and alarm or persuade the sinful and the erring; and, on this
+account alone, the day is a great good, and should be welcomed.
+However, were any one doubtful of the blessing that attends it, I
+would not reason with him, but I would, if it were possible, lead
+him, when he knew not what day it was, where he could witness, as I
+have, such a scene as I have just described; and when he exclaimed,
+"What does it all mean? What day is it?" I would simply answer, "It
+is the Sabbath day."
+
+
+
+
+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.
+      O, let me, let me in.
+
+
+    Thou took'st me gladly once with thee,
+      So gladly held'st my hand!
+     O, see! thou hast forsaken me.
+     Take me, this time, again with thee
+      Into the heavenly land.
+
+
+
+
+EVENING PRAYER.
+
+    Thou, from whom we never part;
+      Thou, whose love is every where;
+     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.
+
+
+
+
+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.
+       Full 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.
+
+
+
+
+TO A BUTTERFLY.
+
+[FREE TRANSLATION FROM HERDER.]
+
+    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 rosy 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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