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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Christmas offering</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Release Date: December 22, 2020 [eBook #64093]</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em;margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS OFFERING ***</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" height="550" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_1" id="page_1">{1}</a></span> </p> - -<div class="bbox"> -<h1><small>A</small><br /><br /> -CHRISTMAS OFFERING:</h1> - -<p class="c">BY MRS. ELIZABETH DIMOND,<br /><br /><br /> -OF BRISTOL, R. I.<br /><br /><br /> -PROVIDENCE:<br /> -PRINTED BY KNOWLES AND VOSE.<br /> -1847.<br /> </p> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_2" id="page_2">{2}</a></span> </p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3">{3}</a></span> </p> - -<div class="bboxx"> -<p>MRS. SMITH,</p> - -<p class="c"> -<span class="smcap">Providence, R. I.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p class="indd"><span class="smcap">Dear Friend</span>:</p> - -<p>You may be surprised to hear that your old friend, in her eighty-fourth -year, while musing upon God’s mercy and wisdom, has brought forth this -little poem on Creation; which, together with others, permit me to -inscribe to you, wishing you a prolongation of the prosperity and -happiness you enjoy.</p> - -<p class="c"> -I am yours, &c.<br /> - -<span style="margin-left: 50%;">ELIZABETH DIMOND.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bristol, R. I.</span>, Dec. 18, 1847.</p> -<p> </p> -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image016.png" width="150" alt="" /> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span> </p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5">{5}</a></span> </p> - -<h2><a name="A_CHRISTMAS_OFFERING" id="A_CHRISTMAS_OFFERING"></a>A CHRISTMAS OFFERING.</h2> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="THOUGHTS_ON_CREATION" id="THOUGHTS_ON_CREATION"></a>THOUGHTS ON CREATION.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Says</span> the watchman, “And what of the night?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It often brings seasons of sorrow,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When dark and beclouded with sin;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But ah! it may sweeten to-morrow,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If a ray of God’s favor breaks in.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How dark and how gloomy was Chaos;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But God by his own matchless plan,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Call’d this beautiful world from its darkness,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And did safe on its axle-tree hang!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Jesus, our Savior, was present,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For his was the word of command;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He spangled those orbs in their greatness,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For good and for glory to man.”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The angels in wonder stood gazing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till Sol darts his beams to their view;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“What is there in the East that is blazing—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That pearls all the drops of the dew?”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“<span class="lftspc">’</span>Tis the Sun,” Great Messiah then answered,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">’</span>Tis the Sun,” say the angels, “<span class="lftspc">’</span>tis true;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From thee it beams glory and greatness,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And bears up thy own title too.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Great Sol, arise! and spread thy lustre high—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go warm the earth, and decorate the sky!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When thou retir’st, the silver moon will rise,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">With pearly radiance, o’er those spangled skies!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Without a cloud to intercept thy way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go, clearly shine, and make the evening gay!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">God saw his work was great, when it he view’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Approved the same, and then pronounced it good.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And why this garden, walled so rich and fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With glittering stone that is beyond compare—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With walks, and bowers, and interwoven scenes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With silver rivulets that roll between,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Tossing their golden pebbles in the stream!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Here richest fruits, in clusters ripe and fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And variegated blooms perfume the air;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Here beast of every kind, playful yet mute,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And birds with plumage gay, and warbling throat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Chanting to their Maker with melodious note!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And is the richness of these fruits conceal’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That grow spontaneous in this fertile field?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is no one here these sweets to taste? And none the banquet share?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Within these walls is a majestic form,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Graceful and noble as the rising morn!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Adam! survey thy wond’rous form, and see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The image of thy God is stamped on thee!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Be grateful, then, and be obedient, too;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For this respect is to thy Sov’reign due.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And here are richest fruits in store for thee;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all is thine, except that hallow’d tree:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And should’st thou touch it, thou shall surely die!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have pronounced! Ask not the reason why.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then Adam bows assent, and walks the rounds,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To view the beauties of these fertile grounds—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He stops to listen to the bubbling stream,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That gently trickles down the sloping green;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And on his way he views the crystal pond<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Where gold-fish play.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Delighted with the scene, he looks above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Adores the greatness of the God of Love.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">But day is done:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Beyond the western hills now sinks the sun.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Adam with wonder views the evening scene—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The first fair twilight he had ever seen.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But now with drowsy sleep his eyes are pressed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For God has sanctioned all creation rest.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In Christian attitude kneels to the shrine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And offers up his prayers in words divine;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then to his mossy pillow Adam goes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nought to disturb or break his soft repose.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He sleeps secure till morning light appears,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And birds of Paradise salute his ears.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then o’er some loaded bough his arm he’s flung,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Addressed his Maker with his morning song.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then to the willow’d meads he did repair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To view his flocks, and see them gambol there.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With scrutiny, he sees each has a friend;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In his own bosom he thus contends:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But why am I exempt, my mind is good,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I’ve a speech well to be understood——<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But here’s my Sov’reign.” “Adam, answer! why<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That downcast look—that soft, expressive sigh?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will not a Paradise for thee suffice?”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Great Sov’reign! oft I stand in ecstacy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Viewing the greatness of thy Deity!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I know thy works are infinite, supreme,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And canst answer every wished for scheme.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Adam! I see thy faith is strong;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Speak thy request, nor hesitate too long.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“A friend, a partner give to sweeten life,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then these rural scenes are Paradise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then, Adam, sleep! and to thee I’ll give<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A form for whom thou’lt ever wish to live.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8">{8}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then from his side the ivory bone he takes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A beauteous woman of the same he makes.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But O! our hearts are bent on pleasure here—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The disappointment oft times is severe.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But Adam wanders forth we know not where,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And leaves alone the unprotected fair.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The fiend, on search, the separation knew—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“This is my time, and I’ll improve it, too:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Say, beauteous Eve, hast thou no greater mind,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Than to these simple flowers to be confined?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Take this delicious fruit, and then you’ll see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That greater glories are in store for thee.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“That is forbidden fruit; O no! not I;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For if I eat, then I must surely die.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Misrepresented is the fruit I give;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I eat the same, and yet you see I live.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her innocence had never known a lie;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So to his treacherous art she did comply.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She took the apple! When she ate the same,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The poisonous juice had tainted every vein.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">But Adam comes.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Say, lovely Eve, where is thy beauty fled?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where is the bloom that tinged thy cheek with red?<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Who has been here?”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“A treacherous friend! and I believed his lie:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I ate the apple—I alone must die.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In some remotest corner let me be,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And die alone, dear friend, unseen by thee.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dear Adam, do not grieve;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Perhaps thy God will grant another Eve.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“No other Eve shall e’er entwine this heart:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Bone of my bone, from thee I cannot part.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He ate the apple, while all nature grieved,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And every leaf became a sensitive.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But oh, the black’ning cloud to heaven arose,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9">{9}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all the horror of their sins exposed!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all was silent till God’s holy Son,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Array’d in glory, to his Father came.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Father of mercies! let thy will be done:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, cast the sinner’s burden on thy Son;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For I alone their advocate will be,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And their redemption will be found through me.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For when this world is peopled o’er with men,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then Satan will resume his power again—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So blind their eyes, and cause their hearts to sin.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I will be mortal—I will dwell with them,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And cast this monster to his lowest den.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For on the cross sinners will raise me high:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For their redemption willingly I die.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But what does God require for sins like this?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Believe and live, and Christ secures the bliss.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="SWEET_HOME" id="SWEET_HOME"></a>SWEET HOME.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This permanent home! O the thoughts how sublime;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To chant with the angels with voices divine!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To know as we’re known—how delightful the scene,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where no sin and no sorrow can there intervene.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Home, home, sweet, sweet home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear Jesus, our guide, thou hast purchas’d this home,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By thy blood-streaming side our redemption was won;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Draw us by the cords, all bedew’d with thy love,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then safe we shall rest in thy bosom above.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Home, home, sweet, sweet home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Our Father has told us, in accents of love,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To look to the star that doth glitter above.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">No eye ever saw, and no heart can conceive,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of the glory unfolded to saints that believe.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Home, home, sweet, sweet home.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="ON_THE_DEPARTURE_OF_MY_GRANDSON" id="ON_THE_DEPARTURE_OF_MY_GRANDSON"></a>ON THE DEPARTURE OF MY GRANDSON.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And is this little darling doomed to roam,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And cross the treacherous ocean for a home?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And must the cruel barque his cradle be?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And must the billows waft him far from me?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How oft, when grief has crowded round my heart,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have caressed him, to forget a part:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How oft I’ve long’d his dear departed sire<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Could view these fleeting charms that I so much admire.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I, in the infant, could the father see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Which binds the tie so doubly dear to me.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, thou auspicious Power! send thou thy aid—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Protect the worthy mother and the babe.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, thou bright orb of night! be thou their light,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To guide the helmsman in his onward flight;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then may the father, with unsullied joy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Clasp in his arms his much loved wife and boy.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image010.png" width="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11">{11}</a></span></p> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="ON_A_FROSTY_MORNING" id="ON_A_FROSTY_MORNING"></a>ON A FROSTY MORNING.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One frosty morn on window high,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This beauteous leaf was traced<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By Nature’s art; her hand supplied<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The crystal square to grace.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Angelic Nature, how divine<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thy brilliant beauties be!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No India pearl, though rare refined,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Can vie, bright frost, with thee.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="AFTER_A_SNOW_STORM" id="AFTER_A_SNOW_STORM"></a>AFTER A SNOW STORM.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, Abby, dear, have you the scene survey’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And viewed this beauteous carpet Nature’s made?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Not only in one spot its beauty’s shone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But every building wears a milk-white dome.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How did you like the grand, majestic throng,<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Waving their banners as they wade along?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their noble bells they called a grand review,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To see this beauteous carpet cut in two.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image011.png" width="75" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</a></span></p> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="TO_MY_GRANDDAUGHTER" id="TO_MY_GRANDDAUGHTER"></a>TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">My dearest child, thy features oft I trace,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And view the opening beauties of thy face;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I see thy bosom, as the matchless dove,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Impressed with virtue and the seat of love.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thy pleasing smile, more sweet than morning dew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will gain the heart of him that’s formed for you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But if the youth should offer you his hand,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Don’t be in haste, but let the bargain stand.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Consult the friend who ever loves you best;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For in her council you may safely rest.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, may your days be cast in Fortune’s bower,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There safely dwell, and bless the tranquil hour.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May Fortune smile, to grace thy peaceful lot,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And strew thy path with sweet forget-me-not.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="TO_ROSALIE" id="TO_ROSALIE"></a>TO ROSALIE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Sweet Rosalie, say, will you take<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This tiny gift for friendship’s sake?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yes: Friendship will forever shine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Upon a brow so fair as thine.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then may the union lasting be,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Between dear Isabelle and thee.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, I forgot; ’tis sweet May-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When Flora paints the mead so gay.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13">{13}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Go to your own romantic bower,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And gather there the choicest flower;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Entwine your wreath with snow-drops, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then ’twill more resemble you.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="LINES1" id="LINES1"></a>LINES,</h2> - -<p class="csml">On presenting two Italian images, in the attitude of dancing, with -tambourine and bowl in hand, to a friend. </p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear Madam, we of late have left our homes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To view the beauties of your stately rooms;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I do admire them! they’re so grand and neat;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And with your kind consent I’ll take a seat.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Seat, did I say? Oh, no; I meant to stand;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Because, dear Madam, we’re at your command.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But where’s Miss China Aster?<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a>—that’s too plain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The sweet-stock Gillyflower shall be her name.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I hear she’s very good, as well as gay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Perhaps she’ll intercede for us to stay.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And where is grand-mama, who’s so discreet?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’d bow respectfully before her feet;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And cousin Hannah, she is mild and meek—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her argument I love; it is so sweet.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Ladies, should you consent for us to light,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The green-room ever would be our delight.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’re very fond, you know of rural scenes;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And white is beautiful beside the green.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You see we often step the merry dance,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But ’tis with your consent that we advance.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You dislike music, ma’m, we have been told,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And our is simple—centres in the bowl.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14">{14}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Ladies, should you dislike for us to stay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Kindly conduct us o’er the ferry way.<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Madam, my friend upbraids me for my chat;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have to speak for both. Should you like that?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="THE_REPLY" id="THE_REPLY"></a>THE REPLY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, why are you so far from home,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">On this cold night abroad to roam?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Has your behavior been correct?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I am unwilling to suspect.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Walk in. Don’t stand; pray take a seat;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A stranger I will always greet.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You praise my house and call it splendid,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And praise its inmates, too.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If a mere compliment’s intended,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Civility’s your due.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ll give you shelter for the night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And view you by the morning light;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If, on acquaintance, you should prove<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Worthy of Madam Flora’s love,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then grandma will not plead in vain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor cousin H——, with her sweet strain.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Miss Gillyflower will be delighted,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To take in wanderers benighted;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So I consent; call this your home,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor ever from your goddess roam;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At her command, among her flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Spend all your thoughtless, playful hours,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Contrasting with her vivid greens,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Your white robe, which transparent seems.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Though music has no charms for me,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m not opposed to others’ glee:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You and your friend may dance and sing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And welcome the return of spring;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when the General returns,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And gratitude each bosom warms,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thank him for all the good I’ve done—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For he and I, you know, are one.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then be content; no boat nor wherry,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Shall take you t’other side the ferry.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="LINES2" id="LINES2"></a>LINES,</h2> - -<p class="csml">Addressed to a lady on the arrival of her husband in New York. </p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How sweet is the dawn of the spring—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Its ordorous blossoms how gay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The birds on the boughs sweetly sing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And drive all our sorrows away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And here are rich blessings anew;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">True, Heaven is good and is kind;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The return of your partner to you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will bring a sweet peace to your mind.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And oh, how happy he’ll be,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To find you enjoying good health;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For, oh, lovely Sarah, you see<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That you are a part of himself.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Your aid, gentle breezes, do lend,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And waft him safe over the sea.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You must not forget, my dear friend,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who it is that returns him to thee.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="TO_THE_FRIEND_OF_MY_YOUTH" id="TO_THE_FRIEND_OF_MY_YOUTH"></a>TO THE FRIEND OF MY YOUTH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To thee, my friend, I wish a happy year,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With friendship true, and with a heart sincere;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May this new year a bounteous blessing prove,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And calm the bosom of the friend I love.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May that connubial tie from her be loosed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till some fond Damon shall the bondage choose;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then with care she’ll mind the nicest part—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Join not the hand till you have won the heart.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">There needs no caution, then, methinks she’ll say;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And with a flirt she throws my scroll away.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But still I see her take it up anew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And say, “I’ll read,”—because her heart is true.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The happy year again the theme she’ll lend,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With anxious wishes for our absent friends:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May the dark curtain of the winter scene<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Be calmy drawn, and spring-time blessings bring.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then let the gales be gentle, kind and sure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And speed the barque on this her destined tour;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">While May’s sweet breezes waft them gently home,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Ladened with riches from a foreign clime.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then their return will crown the jocund year:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Old friends, old scenes, and all they hold most dear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will crowd around, and fill each heart with love—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each voice with thanks to him who reigns above.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image016.png" width="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</a></span></p> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="TO_A_YOUNG_LADY" id="TO_A_YOUNG_LADY"></a>TO A YOUNG LADY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">My dear young friend, O may you e’er be blest,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And may your bosom be the seat of rest;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May each succeeding day new pleasures bring,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All pure and lovely as returning spring.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A little fortune be your happy lot,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And on a rising green erect your cot;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Around your bower may blooming hawthorn spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And intervening flowers fresh fragrance bring.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May deeds of honor crown your frugal board,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Heaven’s rich blessings be your great reward,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Æolian harps your nightly windows grace,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And softly lull you to your balmy rest.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="ON_THE_DEATH_OF_AN_INFANT" id="ON_THE_DEATH_OF_AN_INFANT"></a>ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Sweet Josephine, thou hast left this drear abode,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To be an angel with thy Father, God!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There, in sweet strains, thy little lisping tongue<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will chant the praises angels never sung.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Farewell, dear babe! A last, a long farewell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till we in heaven with thee shall ever dwell.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image017.png" width="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</a></span></p> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="ON_SEEING_A_LOVELY_CHILD" id="ON_SEEING_A_LOVELY_CHILD"></a>ON SEEING A LOVELY CHILD.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">How sweet is the dawn of an infant—<br /></span> -<span class="i4">How fondly caressed is the smile;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The mother, though tired and weary,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Forgets all, when blessed with her child.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">When the beautiful bud has expanded,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And opens its bloom to our view;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, then we see with advantage,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">What Nature intended to do.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now she can play and can prattle—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With her doll and her toys loves to dwell;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And who upon earth is so happy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As the dear little girl, Abby Bell.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<h2><a name="A_WISH_FOR_THE_SAILOR" id="A_WISH_FOR_THE_SAILOR"></a>A WISH FOR THE SAILOR.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May the winds and the waves prove auspicious to thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And waft you safe on where your wishes may be;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then Heaven befriend you, and reward all your toil,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And load up your ship with a pressure of oil.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="c"> -<img src="images/image018.png" width="150" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<div class="footnotes"><p class="c">FOOTNOTES:</p> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> After a great fall of snow, sleds, with cattle attached, -filled with men and boys, with floating banners and merry bells, cut -their way through the snow; thus making the streets passable for lighter -vehicles, and for foot passengers.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> A name applied by a friend, denoting freshness and -vivacity. The Gillyflower united denotes the sweetness of her temper.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> “O’er the ferry way,” the residence of my friend’s brother, -a delightful farm situated between Bristol and Newport, called the “Elam -Place.”</p></div> - -</div> -<hr class="full" /> -<div style='display:block;margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS OFFERING ***</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This file should be named 64093-h.htm or 64093-h.zip</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in https://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/0/9/64093/</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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