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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> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Wee Wee Songs for Our Little Pets</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Leila Lee</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: August 11, 2021 [eBook #66038]</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 WEE WEE SONGS FOR OUR LITTLE PETS ***</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/cover.jpg"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" -height="500" alt="[Image of -the book's cover unavailable.]" /></a> -</p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" -style="border: 2px black solid;margin:auto auto;max-width:50%; -padding:1%;"> -<tr><td> - -<p class="c"><a href="#CONTENTS">Contents.</a><br /> -<span class="nonvis">(In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] -clicking on the image will bring up a larger version.)</span></p> - -<p class="c">(etext transcriber's note)</p></td></tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3">{3}</a></span> </p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> -<a href="images/frontis.jpg"> -<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="383" height="578" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span> </p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/title.jpg"> -<img src="images/title.jpg" -height="600" -alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a></div> - -<h1>WEE WEE SONGS<br /> -<small>FOR</small><br /> -OUR LITTLE PETS</h1> - -<p class="c">BY LEILA LEE.<br /><br /> -NEW YORK:<br /> -PUBLISHED BY BLAKEMAN & MASON,<br /> -310 BROADWAY.<br /> -1859.</p> - -<p class="c"> -Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by Henry V. Degen, in<br /> -the Clerk’s office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.<br /> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5">{5}</a></span></p> - -<div class="bbox"> - -<h2>PREFACE.</h2> - -<p><span class="smcap">Should</span> an apology be needed for issuing a book of poetry so very simple -as “<span class="smcap">Wee-Wee Songs</span>,” it may be found in the article entitled “Mother -Goose,” on page 7th. The desire expressed by Willie’s mother,</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“That those who love Jesus<br /></span> -<span class="i3">Would oftener read<br /></span> -<span class="i1">The sweet words he uttered,<br /></span> -<span class="i3">My lambs, ye must feed.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">has ever found a warm response in the heart of<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i15"><span class="smcap">Leila</span>.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span> </p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span> </p> - -<h1> -<img src="images/weewee.png" -width="450" -alt="WEE-WEE SONGS -FOR OUR LITTLE PETS." /></h1> - -<h2>MOTHER GOOSE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Mamma</span>,” said our Sue,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“You sent me to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Up stairs with the nurse<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Willie to play.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And I told her I thought<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It was wicked and silly,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To say things like these<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To our dear little Willy—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">‘</span>Oh, hi-diddle,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Diddle,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The cat has the<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fiddle,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The cow has jumped<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Over the moon,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The little dog laughed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To see all the sport,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And the dish ran away<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With the spoon.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8">{8}</a></span>’<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Nurse says she has found<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The book of great use,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For children are pleased<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To hear Mother Goose.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Now, is it not wrong<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To tell them a lie?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If not, I am sure<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I cannot see why.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I think you are right,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her mother replied;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Nurse must try to amuse him<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With something beside.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But babies are pleased<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With the jingle of rhyme,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And old Mother Goose<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Has been used a long time.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“We must find Wee-Wee Songs,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That are not quite so silly,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And buy them for nurse,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To amuse little Willy.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“We give him, each day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fresh milk and sweet bread,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And his dear little mind<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Must be properly fed.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9">{9}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">’</span>Tis not easy to find<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sweet thoughts, good and true,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In nursery rhymes;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I wish, my dear Sue,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That those who love Jesus<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would oftener read<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those sweet words he uttered,<br /></span> -<span class="i2"><i>My lambs</i> ye must feed!<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For this beautiful world,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So joyous and bright,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Has so many things<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of which poets might write.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The blue sky above us,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The flowers and the trees,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The warbling of birds,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And the hum of the bees.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“These bright thoughts would give<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our darling great pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If written in simple,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sweet-flowing measure.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SLEEP, DOLLY!</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Do</span>, Miss Dolly,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Shut your eye;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I will wake you<br /></span> -<span class="i4">By and by.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Wee-Wee Songs<br /></span> -<span class="i4">I want to read;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You must go<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To sleep indeed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">You’re my little<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Pet, ’tis true,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But I can not<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Read to you;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">For you never<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Seem to hear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Tho’ I read quite<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Loud and clear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">Little songs are<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Not for you;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mind, I’ve told you<br /></span> -<span class="i4">What to do!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">So, Miss Dolly<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Shut your eye;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I will wake you<br /></span> -<span class="i4">By and by.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11">{11}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>WAKE, DOLLY!</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Wee-Wee Songs<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are put away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dolly, wake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Tis time to play!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You have been<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So good to-day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I am sure<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You ought to play.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dolly, now<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You must obey;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wake, I say,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And come and play!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Don’t you hear me<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When I say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dolly, wake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Tis time to play?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Do you dare<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To disobey<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When I call,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come out to play?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Are you deaf,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My pet, to-day?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then I’ll <i>lead</i> you<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Out to play.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 386px;"> -<a href="images/image012.jpg"> -<img src="images/image012.jpg" width="386" height="430" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>ELLA AND THE ROSES.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“What</span> beautiful roses! Oh do, dear mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just pick one or two ere we go;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If the gardener were here he would not refuse<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To give us some flowers, I know.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13">{13}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The gardener’s <i>not here</i>,” her mother replied;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He asked us to <i>see</i> his sweet flowers;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“I trust, my dear child, you would not wish to steal,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">These roses, you know, are not ours.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Their beautiful fragrance you now can inhale,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their lovely, bright colors enjoy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Should you steal but one rose you’d be happy no more,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You would lose all this innocent joy.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“O no! dear mamma, I should not wish to steal,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So I’ll bid these sweet roses adieu!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now, Rover,” said Ella, “we’re ready to play,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I will be happy with you.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>IDA MAY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">No</span> little girl<br /></span> -<span class="i2">More bright and gay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or happier<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Than Ida May<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">As she ran off<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To school one day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And passed the store<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of Mr. Gray,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14">{14}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Where, near the door,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Some ripe plums lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Satan whispered,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Ida May—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Take but one plum,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then run away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You’ll not be seen<br /></span> -<span class="i2">By Mr. Gray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, had she thought<br /></span> -<span class="i2">One prayer to say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She’d not have sinned,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Poor Ida May!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She caught one up,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then ran away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And was not seen<br /></span> -<span class="i2">By Mr. Gray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Ah, sinful child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To disobey<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Word of God—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hear, Ida May!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Thou shalt not steal!”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now hear Him say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And you have stolen<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From Mr. Gray.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The voice of God<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will you obey?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It whispers now,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Stop! Ida May,—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">’Tis not too late,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go back, you may<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Return the plum<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Mr. Gray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then lift your heart<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To God, and pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Forgive the sin<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of Ida May.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That still, small voice<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She did obey,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And ran with haste<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Mr. Gray,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And told him all<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Without delay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The good man pitied<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Ida May.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He gently wiped<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her tears away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when she left,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Kind Mr. Gray<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Said to the child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“One moment stay—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ll <i>give</i> some plums<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Ida May.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I could not eat<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A plum to-day!”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Said Ida, then,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Mr. Gray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She went to school<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And all the way<br /></span> -<span class="i0">God saw the heart<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of Ida May<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Was sweetly raised<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Him, to pray<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That He would wash<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her sins away—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For Jesus’ sake.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And God that day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Freely forgave<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Dear Ida May.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 244px;"> -<a href="images/image016.jpg"> -<img src="images/image016.jpg" width="244" height="64" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 312px;"> -<a href="images/image017.jpg"> -<img src="images/image017.jpg" width="312" height="378" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>THE PEACOCK.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Is</span> it right, Mr. Peacock, to strut about so?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your plumage is fine ’tis allowed;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And had <i>you</i> but painted that beautiful tail,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You would then, with some reason, feel proud.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Many bright little flowers, as pretty as you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are found in some shady retreat.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go learn of the rose-buds and violets, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their modesty renders them sweet.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">God gave you the plumage we so much admire;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God painted the butterfly’s wing;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">God deck’d the green fields with flowers so gay,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And taught the dear birds how to sing.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Many things in this beautiful world He has made<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To look quite as pretty as you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So please, Mr. Peacock, don’t feel quite so proud,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As your gay, brilliant plumage we view!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>MINNIE’S FAITHFULNESS</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Brother</span>, may I unpack your trunk?” said little Minnie Bell.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“O yes, my dear; how glad I am to get home safe and well;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ve been in California for more than three long years,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But I’m safely home at last, in spite of mother’s fears.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Yes, Alfred, it has seemed, to dear mamma and me,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A long, long time, and we are glad your happy face to see;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_19" id="page_19">{19}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Morning and evening, do you know? when we knelt down to pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Mamma has asked, that God would bless and guard you while away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And God has kindly heard her prayer, and kept you safe and well.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She worked awhile,—at length, she said, “Dear Alfred, please to tell<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where you have put your Bible? I’ve unpacked the trunk with care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I have laid upon the bed most all the clothes you wear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I’ve looked at every article, and yet I have not seen<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A Bible or a Testament; brother, what can it mean?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I fear that you have been without a Bible all the way;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is it in California, or have you lost it,—say?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“You little chatter-box, do see the presents I have brought;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This for mamma, and that for you; Why! really I had thought<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_20" id="page_20">{20}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">The beautiful new dress I bought would please my sister well;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How do you like this India fan, I ask you, Minnie Bell?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“O, it is very beautiful! I thank you, Alfred, dear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But yet you have not told me, what most I wish to hear.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Well, Minnie,” said her brother, “if really you must know,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When I sailed for California my Bible did not go.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I know ’twas wrong to leave it out, for never have I seen<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A Bible or a Testament in any place I’ve been;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We did not often think of God when we were digging gold;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That is the truth; now, Minnie dear, pray don’t begin to scold.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Forgotten God for three long years! Alfred, can this be true?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dear brother, were you not afraid of God’s forgetting you?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_21" id="page_21">{21}</a></span>”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He took the dear child in his arms, and bursting into tears,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“My conduct has been wrong,” he said, “how sinful it appears!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Just then his mother entered, with her heart quite full of joy<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And gratitude to God above, who had kept her darling boy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She had been alone to thank him, and offer up a prayer<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That God who had preserved her son, would keep him in his care.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Dear mother, will you pray,” said he, “and read in God’s own Word<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That story of the Prodigal, which I have often heard;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For I have wandered far away, but now desire to come<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And love and serve that Being who hath safely brought me home?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her prayer was heard; and Alfred Bell is now a Christian man,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Serving his God with faithfulness, and doing all he can<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_22" id="page_22">{22}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">That those who go to distant lands, to search for mines of gold,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May find within God’s holy Word a mine of wealth untold.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> -<a href="images/image022.jpg"> -<img src="images/image022.jpg" width="368" height="296" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>THE PULSIFER CHILDREN.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Oh</span>, Mother! said little Ruth Greenwood one day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Please come to the window this moment, I pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For two little children are here, by the door,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They are weary and cold, and they look very poor.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_23" id="page_23">{23}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Pulsifer children, I see, said her mother,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis dear little Ella, and Harry, her brother<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Run, call them in quickly! their mother, I know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Returned to this village a few days ago.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I sent them, this morning, a cart-load of wood,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And fear that they now may be suffering for food;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’ll fill up their baskets with bread and with meat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And give the dear children a plenty to eat.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Their mother is proud, and she cannot endure<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The neighbors should know they are now very poor;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But since we’ve “a will,” we must find out “a way,”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To help this poor widow—we must not delay.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her father’s a drunkard, her husband is dead,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And she is too ill to hold up her head;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The wretched old man now reels thro’ the street,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And never provides them a mouthful to eat.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Ruth ran to the door, and called them both in;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their feet were most naked, their garments were thin,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_24" id="page_24">{24}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Too thin to go out in this cold wintry weather;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Here Ruth and her sister both whispered together.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">O, yes, sister Mary, those stockings you’ve knit,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Just the thing, and so warm! I am sure they will fit;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’ll make up a bundle, and stow it away<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In the baskets they’ve left in the entry to-day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Little Ella and Harry were grateful indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That God had provided such friends in their need;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their baskets were filled with biscuit and meat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And warm shoes and stockings to cover their feet.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Greenwood’s oft drew from their plentiful store,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And quietly sent to the poor widow’s door<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Such things as she needed. Her proud heart was melted;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She welcomed their visits, and soon was contented<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_25" id="page_25">{25}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">To let little Harry and Ella go where<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They could hear of the Saviour, and his tender care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of dear orphan children—the story, to day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You may read in a book called “<span class="smcap">A Will and A Way</span>”<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a><br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>MORNING SONG AND MORNING PRAYER.</h2> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Awake</span>, my daughter, come and see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This Robin red-breast on the tree;<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Open your drowsy eyes!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Spring up from bed and see her now,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She’s lighting on the highest bough,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Come quick, before she flies!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">LILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yes, dear mamma, I see the bird,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And sweeter notes I never heard<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Than she is warbling now;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I hope she will not fly away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But sit and sing the live-long day,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">On this, her favorite bough.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_26" id="page_26">{26}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The birds must build their nests in Spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They have to work as well as sing;<br /></span> -<span class="i6">To their Creator’s praise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Since early dawn, dear Lillie, she<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Has warbled out, from yonder tree,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Her very sweetest lays.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now tell me, who has kindly kept<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My little daughter while she slept;<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Who heard her evening prayer,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And gently closed the weary eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor suffered danger to come nigh,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">But kept her in his care?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">LILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I laid me down, mamma, and slept,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Because the Lord sustained and kept<br /></span> -<span class="i6">His child thro’ all the night;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And now I lift my heart and pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">O, God, I thank thee for this day,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">That I may see its light!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When all my friends were fast asleep,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thou didst my soul in safety keep,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">And took kind care of me;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_27" id="page_27">{27}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Father in Heaven, O, hear me now,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As at thy feet I humbly bow,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">To ask a gift of thee.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Give me thy spirit from above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That I may learn to know and love<br /></span> -<span class="i6">My best and dearest Friend,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Savior, who hath died for me,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That I his little lamb may be,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">O Lord thy spirit send!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now, be with me all the day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That whether I’m at work or play,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">I may remember, then,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The eye of God is still on me,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, help me thy dear child to be,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">For Jesus’ sake,—Amen.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>PLAY-TIME.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Lillie</span>, put<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your work away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now ’tis time<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To go and play.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You have been<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So good to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You’ll be happy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When you play.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_28" id="page_28">{28}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;"> -<a href="images/image028.jpg"> -<img src="images/image028.jpg" width="367" height="279" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>BABY’S FIRST STEPS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Baby</span>, darling,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Do not fear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Move those little<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Feet, my dear;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Don’t stand waiting<br /></span> -<span class="i2">There so long;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You are growing<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Very strong.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Here he comes,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, that’s the way!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nurse, I know<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mamma will say,<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_29" id="page_29">{29}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When she comes home, Why, how you talk!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is baby learning how to walk?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Try again,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Little pet,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You have not<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fallen yet;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Here she comes;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Look, nurse, look!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All alone,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Three steps she took.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When papa<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Comes home to-night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It will give him<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Great delight;<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And he will say, Why, how you talk!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Are you sure the child can walk?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Nurse, I love<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our baby so,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I must teach her<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All I know.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That’s not much,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Papa would say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He laughs at me<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Most every day,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_30" id="page_30">{30}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Because I’m old<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Enough to read,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh dear! that’s very<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hard indeed.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, baby, we will not stop to talk,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We are going out doors to teach you to walk.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>CONVERSATION UPON ICE.<br /><br /> -<small>MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.</small></h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Come</span>, dear,” said Mrs. Jones one day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Jane, her little daughter,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Come, look at this large block of ice,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now floating in the water!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“You could not lift it from the ground,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If you should try all day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And yet, like a mere feather, now,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You see it float away.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, yes, mamma, it does seem strange,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That it should never sink,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Why that large block of ice should float,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m sure I cannot think.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“How very kind it is in God<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To freeze the waters so,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That on the top the ice remains<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And cannot sink below!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_31" id="page_31">{31}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For, while our winters are so cold,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How short a time ’twould take<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To form one solid mass of ice,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In river, pond, or lake!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And thus, from year to year, mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Winter would ever reign,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For such a mass could never melt<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When summer came again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But tell me how the ice is formed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And what can make it float<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Upon the surface of the lake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just like a little boat?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Our Heavenly Father, Jane, has filled<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With bubbles full of air,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each lump of ice—and we may see<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His goodness everywhere.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The air expands within the ice,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just as its Maker pleases,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And rarifies to make it light,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whene’er the water freezes.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Thin cakes thus form in layers, Jane,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As you may often see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">One ring within another, round<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The body of a tree,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_32" id="page_32">{32}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And thus ’tis piled from week to week,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While Jack Frost is about,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Until the men with horses come,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To float the treasure out.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And what a luxury, mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">These large ice blocks will be<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When summer comes, and we again<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such sultry weather see!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Last August, I remember well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When I came home from school,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How good the water used to taste,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With ice to make it cool.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And then, you know, we used to have<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our butter hard and nice,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our cake kept cool, and fish, and meat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Preserved with lumps of ice.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Yes, dearest, God is ever kind—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How constant is his care!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He gives not only food and drink,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And clothes for us to wear,—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But happy homes with luxuries filled,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And this bright world of ours<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is stored with precious gifts of love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Abundant fruits and flowers,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_33" id="page_33">{33}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“To gratify the taste of man,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And fill his heart with joy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then, should not grateful thoughts of God<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each passing hour employ?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Yes, dear mamma, for warbling birds<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Send up their sweetest lays,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To thank Him for his gifts of love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And we should offer praise<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“To the great God, our dearest friend,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who lives and reigns above;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will you not pray to Him, mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To fill my heart with love?”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>HAPPY DOLLY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Happy</span> at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Happy by day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Happy at home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Happy away!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dolly darling,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Never, never,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Are you cross,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But happy ever!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 244px;"> -<a href="images/image033.jpg"> -<img src="images/image033.jpg" width="244" height="64" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_34" id="page_34">{34}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 329px;"> -<a href="images/image034.jpg"> -<img src="images/image034.jpg" width="329" height="237" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>EDDIE IN THE COUNTRY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“I’m</span> sure ’tis too pleasant this beautiful day<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To sit here so quietly playing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come, Lillie, let’s be off to the mountain away,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And see where the sheep are now straying!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So said little Eddie, and ran with great joy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To ask if his cousin could go;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But tho’ his aunt wished to oblige the dear boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She still was compelled to say no.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I have given my daughter a lesson to learn,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then follows a half hour’s sewing;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Should this be well done, then with pleasure she’ll earn,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I shall not object to her going.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_35" id="page_35">{35}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“You remember, last evening, she promised papa,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His handkerchief neatly to sew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have fitted her work, when ’tis done,” said mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“And the lesson is learned, she may go.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I can work after dinner,” said Lillie, “do please<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just <i>for once</i> to grant Eddie’s request.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“My dear,” said her mother, “<span class="lftspc">’</span>tis no use to teaze,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">After work, not before, you may rest.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lillie took up her book, with a tear in her eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She could scarce see a word that was in it;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But Eddie declared ’twas of no use to cry,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And she thought so herself in a minute.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Resolving to try, and do all in her power,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To make of each duty a pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She conquered; and said to mamma, “in an hour,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Please hear me recite, if you’ve leisure!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her mother looked pleased, as she said, “how is this,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Papa’s handkerchief hemmed and all ready?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Well done, my dear child! Now give me a kiss,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then run out and find cousin Eddie.”<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_36" id="page_36">{36}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>BIBLE SOLD BY WEIGHT.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Please</span> put the Bible in one scale, the papers in the other;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis mine? ’tis mine! dear Willie cried, and ran to tell his mother.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His little heart was full of joy as he ran home again;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How he obtained the Bible, young reader, we’ll explain.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He went to buy his mother, at noon, a pound of tea,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, when the grocer weighed it out, the child observed that he<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Turned round to tear a Bible that on the counter lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He had bought it for waste paper, he said that very day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He was almost out of paper to wrap his parcels in.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now the grocer could not read, and knew not what a sin<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It was to tear this Holy Book and take each well-worn leaf<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To use for such a purpose; but when he saw the grief<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_37" id="page_37">{37}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Of his little favorite, Willie, he kindly said, I’m sure<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ll give you the old volume if some papers you’ll procure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As much as this great book will weigh—you see it is not light,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Run home and see what you can find, and bring them before night.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The boy was very poor, indeed, but he was good and kind,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when he went among his friends, it was not hard to find<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those who approved of Willie’s care of God’s most Holy Word,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They gladly gave the papers when the story they had heard.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">An hour had scarcely passed, when the grocer saw, with pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The little boy returning to claim the promised treasure.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He placed the Bible in one scale, the papers in the other.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, thank you, sir! ’tis mine! he cried, and ran to tell his mother.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_38" id="page_38">{38}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How happy was that mother; God’s Word was her delight<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A light unto her path by day,—a guiding star at night;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She raised her heart in thankfulness, that he had learned to prize<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His precious Bible, and had gained a treasure in the skies.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 336px;"> -<a href="images/image038.jpg"> -<img src="images/image038.jpg" width="336" height="246" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>OH, SPARE THE BIRDS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Spare</span> the dear little birds, don’t kill them I pray!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But listen, and hear their sweet song;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To spoil all our music, and shoot them to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, sportsmen, you know ’twould be wrong!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_39" id="page_39">{39}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At dawn of the day, they are warbling away,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But they never have done the least harm;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The summer’s most gone, they’ve a short time to stay—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They will soon fly away from our farm.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To the bright sunny South, they then will repair,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In autumn they flock off together;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our Father in Heaven with kind, watchful care,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then guides them in search of warm weather.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I’m sure ’twill displease Him, if merely for sport<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You shoot these sweet songsters to-day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Remember, kind sportsmen, their life is but short;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, spare them, in pity, I pray!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>CROSS GIRL.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Jane</span>, my dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How can you be<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Cross to little<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Emily!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When she’s such<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A darling child;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Always gentle,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Meek and mild.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_40" id="page_40">{40}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_41" id="page_41">{41}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 581px;"> -<a href="images/image040.jpg"> -<img src="images/image040.jpg" width="581" height="367" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>TRENTON FALLS.</h2> - -<p class="c">See Frontispiece and other views of Trenton Falls.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Cascades</span> roaring<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In their might,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Waters pouring<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From the height,—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Wildly bounding<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On their way,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Loud resounding,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Seem to say,—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">See us toiling,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As we glide;—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hear us boiling,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Far and wide.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">We are living,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Not in vain,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We are giving<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Back again<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Plenteous rain-drops<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To the sun,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As it cheers us<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While we run.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Rising, leaping,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Over hills,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_42" id="page_42">{42}</a></span>—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We are keeping<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Yonder mills<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Swiftly going<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Round and round;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Onward flowing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We are found.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Useful ever,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As we go;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Silent never.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Do you know<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">We are teaching<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You to-day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hear our preaching.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Children, stay!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Learn a lesson<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of the river;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yield your hearts<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To God, their giver.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Ever raising<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Grateful praise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Loving, serving,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All your days.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_43" id="page_43">{43}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>PAPA’S REQUEST.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Write</span> very often, children,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Write papa very soon;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Your letters will be dearer<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Than lovliest flowers in June;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For papa will be absent<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Throughout the long, long year.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Write to him very often<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What he will wish to hear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That Fred and sister Bessie<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are learning with their might,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And little Nell and Jessie<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are doing what is right.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dear children, help each other,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At morning, noon, and night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then your happy mother<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will find it sweet to write.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Write papa very often,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Write in the early morn,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or write him just at twilight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When all the day is gone;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Draw out the pretty table,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mamma will bring a light,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And help the older children<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To gather round and write.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_44" id="page_44">{44}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Write of the loving kindness<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of that dear Friend above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To whom, in papa’s absence,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He would lead your hearts in love.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Think of Him in the morning,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And think of Him at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And of his acts of kindness<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Do not forget to write.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Write very often, dear ones,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Write papa very soon,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Your letters will be dearer<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Than loveliest flowers in June.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If, while papa is absent,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You’d fill him with delight,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Think of him very often,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And don’t forget to write.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>JANE’S QUESTION.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Mamma</span>,” said Jane, “what will you do<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When you have read your Bible through?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You read so carefully each part,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I think you’ll know it all by heart.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her mother smiled and said, “Why, then<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I mean to read it through again;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And hope my daughter soon will be<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Able to read God’s Book with me.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_45" id="page_45">{45}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Yes, dear mamma, I soon shall read,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m learning very fast, indeed;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I should gladly leave my play<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For Bible stories any day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But, then, you know, to me they’re new;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now, when I’ve read a book twice through,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m tired of it, and want another,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Why do you not feel so, dear mother?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Indeed, my love, I often do<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Tire of some books as quick as you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I should not even read them twice,<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>Once reading</i> will for me suffice.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But we may read, and read again,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">These sweet words of our Father, Jane,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From youth to age, and as we come<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nearer and nearer to our home—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Our happy home in heaven above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This Book we more and more shall love;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Sweeter than honey, and more dear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Than precious gems, ’twill then appear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“May God his grace to you impart,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And write these truths upon your heart.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now, darling, put your work away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis time for you to run and play,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’ll talk of this some other day.”<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_46" id="page_46">{46}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_47" id="page_47">{47}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<a href="images/image046.jpg"> -<img src="images/image046.jpg" width="500" height="344" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>JOHN MASON AND HIS SLED</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“O, <span class="smcap">how</span> I wish we owned a sleigh,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said Susie to her mother;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“I want to go to school to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With Nellie and my brother!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her mother sighed, and said, “My dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your sister cannot go;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They have not made a path, I fear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since this great fall of snow.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Here James ran in with joy, and said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Dear mother, come and see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">John Mason’s here with his new sled,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He offers it to me<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“To take our Nell to school to-day;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I am to be the horse;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Please wrap her up without delay,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You’ll let her go, of course!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And Susie, too,” John Mason cried,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“I’ll take her on my back;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nell and the dinner, both can ride,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">John, follow in my track!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The mother’s heart was filled with joy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She watched them from the door,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A happy group! And that dear boy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who thought upon the poor,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_48" id="page_48">{48}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Think you, he was not happy, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When he went home at night!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If you would hear the story through,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Read “<span class="smcap">Right, and About Right</span>.”<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a><br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>RIDE TO SCHOOL IN WINTER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“We are ready;<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Let us go<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Swiftly over<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Ice and snow;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Nell and Susie,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Side by side,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">You shall have<br /></span> -<span class="i6">A glorious ride!”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">See the happy children go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Smoothly o’er the ice and snow!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“Clasp your arms<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Around me tight;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Hold on, Susie,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">That is right;—<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Nellie, keep<br /></span> -<span class="i6">The basket still<br /></span> -<span class="i4">When we dash<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Down yonder hill!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_49" id="page_49">{49}</a></span>”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus the happy children go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Briskly o’er the ice and snow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“Wintry weather<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Cannot harm us,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Nor Jack Frost<br /></span> -<span class="i6">E’er alarm us;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">How exciting!<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Onward move,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Hearts uniting<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Thus in love.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Merrily singing, on they go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Quickly o’er the ice and snow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“Oh, we love<br /></span> -<span class="i6">This bracing air,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Though the snow<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Is everywhere;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Fingers cold?<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Never mind it.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">There’s a fire,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">We shall find it,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When we reach the school, you know,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Over the ice and over the snow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“Now we toil<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Up the hill,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_50" id="page_50">{50}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i4">Wear-i-ly,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">But upward still,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Soon the height<br /></span> -<span class="i6">We shall gain,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Pull the sled<br /></span> -<span class="i6">With might and main.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Struggling, toiling, up they go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wearily over the ice and snow!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Then along<br /></span> -<span class="i6">The level ground,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">On they go<br /></span> -<span class="i6">With a bound;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Merry shouts<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Everywhere<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Ringing through<br /></span> -<span class="i6">The frosty air;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">See the happy children go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Smoothly o’er the ice and snow!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">See! they’re dashing<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Down the hill,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Boys are calling,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">“Nell, be still!”<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Teeth are chattering<br /></span> -<span class="i6">In her head,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_51" id="page_51">{51}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i4">Dishes rattling<br /></span> -<span class="i6">On the sled;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Girls are frightened though they go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Safely o’er the ice and snow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Now they near<br /></span> -<span class="i6">The school-house door—<br /></span> -<span class="i4">There’s the pond<br /></span> -<span class="i6">All frozen o’er;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Hear the happy<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Children singing,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Through the air<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Their voices ringing;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Sliding, skating, merrily, oh!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Swiftly over the ice and snow!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Nell and Sue<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Have found a seat,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And have warmed<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Their hands and feet;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">When the bell<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Rings loud and clear,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Leave your sports<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Children dear!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Quickly into the school they go,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Merrily leaving the ice and snow.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_52" id="page_52">{52}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_53" id="page_53">{53}</a></span></p> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 533px;"> -<a href="images/image052.jpg"> -<img src="images/image052.jpg" width="533" height="352" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>THE KIND BROTHER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Coach</span> is tackled;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sister, run,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Put your gloves<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And bonnet on!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">It is about<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A week ago,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We were promised,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sis, you know,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Were we good,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We should to-day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Take the coach<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And ride away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Cousins now<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are all at home;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Glad they’ll be<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To see us come.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, how pleasant<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Tis to ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All along<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The river side!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Sister, come,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Do not delay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis quite time<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To start away.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_54" id="page_54">{54}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now you’r crying!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are’nt you well?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">What’s the matter?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mary, tell?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">THE FIRST LIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Brother</span>, do not<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Ask me why!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet, you’ll hear,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’ve told a lie!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And here, shut up,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m doomed to stay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And weep and mourn<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The livelong day!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear Harry I’m<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Afraid that you<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Harriet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will hate me too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For, since I’ve told<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This lie, mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Don’t speak to me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor does papa.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Not once upon me<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Have they smiled,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Since I was such<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A wicked child.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_55" id="page_55">{55}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, they will hate me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m afraid,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And God, who heard<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The words I said,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Will shut all liars<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Out of heaven;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, can I ever<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Be forgiven?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">HARRY.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Dear</span> sister, I<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will tell mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How bad you feel,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And ask papa<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This evening, when<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We kneel to pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To ask that God<br /></span> -<span class="i2">May wash away<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Your sins, and help you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Every day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To speak the truth<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whate’er you say.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But first, I’ll send<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The coach away<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I do not wish<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To ride to-day.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_56" id="page_56">{56}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 267px;"> -<a href="images/image056.jpg"> -<img src="images/image056.jpg" width="267" height="238" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>GRANITE HILLS IN WINTER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">These</span> hills, so magnificent, lofty, and great!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The boast of New Hampshire—the Old Granite State!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have seen them, dear children, and much I admire<br /></span> -<span class="i0">These beautiful hills in their wintry attire.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Ice King has laid his cold hand on the rills,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They cannot now playfully leap down the hills;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Snowy mountain and valley alike are made hoary;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Jack Frost reigns triumphant, alone in his glory.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_57" id="page_57">{57}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One sees, now and then, a lonely snow-bird,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But old Robin red-breast no longer is heard<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Warbling out a glad song to the praise of her Maker,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She has gone where the Ice King cannot overtake her.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Who guides the dear birds, that they never get lost<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When seeking a home to escape from the frost?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our Father in Heaven—he guides them aright,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till away in the bright, sunny South they alight.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So long as these lofty old hills shall remain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And spring shall renew their bright verdure again,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our loving, kind Father shall still fondly care<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Not a robin or sparrow can fall to the ground;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Not a raven may cry but he heareth the sound.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then will not “Our Father in Heaven” be nigh,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And bless us, dear children, when we, too, shall cry?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_58" id="page_58">{58}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, yes! Are ye not of more value than they?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In accents most tender, we hear Jesus say;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I’m sure, if God takes such kind care of a bird,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our prayers, if sincere, cannot fail to be heard.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE LAKE—ISLES—NOTCH—WHITE MOUNTAINS, ETC.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">If</span> a map of the Old Granite State you will take,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Near the borders of Maine you will find that large lake,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Winnipisogee,—so lovely to view<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Embosoming islands most beautiful, too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In number they equal the days of the year;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when summer comes no islands appear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">More lovely in verdure and beauty than these,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With rich, fruitful fields, and beautiful trees—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So vocal with birds, warbling out their sweet lays,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As if they were chanting their Maker’s praise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Could you <i>then</i> view the lake, dear children, the sight<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Would fill your young hearts with the greatest delight.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_59" id="page_59">{59}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Another famed spot is a narrow defile,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where the mountain seems split for more than a mile,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And a picturesque landscape around you is spread,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With the White Mountains hanging just over your head.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This Notch is so wonderful, travellers agree,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It repays one to come a long distance to see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Amid Alpine heights such views may abound,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But in our own country they seldom are found.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">American Switzerland! Such is the name<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We give to the Old Granite State for the fame<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of its islands and lakes, its cascades and fountains,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And the bold, lofty peaks of the snowy White Mountains.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SHUN THE SWEARER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Run</span> home, little boy!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, do not stand there,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To hear that bad man<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So wickedly swear.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_60" id="page_60">{60}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 331px;"> -<a href="images/image060.jpg"> -<img src="images/image060.jpg" width="331" height="245" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">What a sight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We descry<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When the Falls<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Meet our eye!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE TELL-TALE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Emma</span>, I’m sorry to observe<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A trick you have, my dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of listening to whate’er is said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And telling all you hear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I knew a little Judith Shove,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who had this habit, too;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She was an active, sprightly girl,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">About as old as you.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_61" id="page_61">{61}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But what was said and done at home<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She always minded well,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, when she went abroad, the whole<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She would be sure to tell.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">People were cautious what they said<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where’er she chanced to come,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For well they knew that every word<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would straight be carried home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The teacher who instructed her,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had made this wholesome rule,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To punish every child who told<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of what was done in school.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But Judith loved to talk so well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">No rule could hold her long;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She could not bear to be restrained,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor learn to hold her tongue.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One day a scholar misbehaved,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This made the teacher fret,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Judith told the whole affair<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To every one she met.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, when the active school-dame heard<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her laws were disobeyed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To find the naughty tell-tale child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A search she quickly made.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_62" id="page_62">{62}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Judith well knew the fault was hers,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And greatly did she fear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To take the threatened punishment<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which she deserved to bear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So, on her little sister she<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Contrived the blame to lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And said she heard her tell the tale<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At home that very day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The little, frightened, trembling child<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With truth the charge denied;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But Judith said, before the school,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That little Sallie lied.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And so she bore what would have been<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The wicked Judith’s due,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The punishment for telling tales,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And speaking falsely, too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Weeping and sobbing she went home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her little heart was full;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Sallie was a child of truth,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So they believed the whole.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Papa made Judith go to school,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And there, before them all,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Own how deceitful she had been;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then on her knees to fall<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_63" id="page_63">{63}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Before the dame and Sallie, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their pardon to obtain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And promise she would never do<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So wickedly again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But ever after, let her go<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Abroad where’er she would,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The boys would hoot her as she passed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And call her—Tattling Jude!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE STOLEN PENKNIFE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Harry</span>, darling, what’s the matter;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Have you hurt yourself, my boy?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When I went away, this morning,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That bright face was full of joy.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, papa,” said Harry, sobbing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“I do think it is a shame,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My new knife is gone—he stole it,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I do not know his name.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Your new knife! Who stole it, Harry?”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“That big boy, papa, who brought<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Shavings here to sell, this morning;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh I wish he could be caught.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I was standing on the sidewalk,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whittling with my knife to-day,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_64" id="page_64">{64}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">When he came, and asked to see it,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then he turned and ran away.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Wicked boy! I think I know him;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Twas a naughty thing to do;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I will bring you home another,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Like the one he stole from you.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“That poor boy has no kind parents,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor a bright and happy home;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wicked children are his playmates,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Through the streets he loves to roam.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“There he learns to be so sinful,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Lying, stealing, every day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He has no kind friends to teach him,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Morn and evening, how to pray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Should you not be thankful, darling,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God has been so good to you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Given you friends so kind and loving,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Taught you what you ought to do?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Learn, my son, a useful lesson<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From this wretched boy to-day,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never choose a bad companion<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When you’re in the streets at play.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_65" id="page_65">{65}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> -<a href="images/image065.jpg"> -<img src="images/image065.jpg" width="383" height="449" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>CROSS GIRL.</h2> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">My</span> dear Amelia, I’m ashamed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To hear you quarrel so;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Leave off these naughty airs, my child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go play with Frances,—go!<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_66" id="page_66">{66}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">AMELIA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I can’t, mamma, the little minx<br /></span> -<span class="i2">May play with whom she can;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And while she lives she shall not have<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My waxen doll again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“With any other little girl<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I should be glad to play;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But I don’t love our Frances, Ma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I wish she’d go away.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Amelia, little Betsy Smith<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Spends all her time alone;<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>She</i> had a little sister once,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But now she’s dead and gone.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Betsy, like you, was very cross,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And when she used to play<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“With pretty little Emeline,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She’d quarrel every day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One time her sister said to her,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Don’t, Betsy, be so cross;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Indeed, I am not well to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And fear I shall be worse.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_67" id="page_67">{67}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Not well! Oh, yes, you’re very sick!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I don’t believe it’s true;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You only want to coax Mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To get nice things for you.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But Emeline grew worse and worse,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Till she could hardly speak;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when the doctor came he said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She would not live a week.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And then it rushed on Betsy’s mind,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How wicked she had been;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The cruel treatment of the child<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She never felt till then.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Over her sister’s bed she hung,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With many a bitter sigh,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And laid her arms about her neck,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">and begged her not to die.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Forgive me, Emeline, or else<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I do not wish to live;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh speak, dear sister, speak once more,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And say you will forgive!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The poor, dear, suffering, dying child<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just raised her languid eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And moved her lips, and tried to say,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Dear Betsy, do not cry!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_68" id="page_68">{68}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then Betsey’s sorrowing mother tried<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To take her from the bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She cast her weeping eyes behind,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Emeline was dead.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now poor little Betsy sits,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Day after day, alone;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She does not wish to laugh or play<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since Emeline is gone.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">AMELIA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Mamma, now see I am not cross;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come, Fanny, let us play!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And you shall have my waxen doll,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And keep it every day.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE FIRST THEFT.</h2> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Edward</span>, come here, how pale you are!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What makes you look so wild?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And you’ve been crying sadly, too!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What’s happened to my child?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">EDWARD.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You know, mamma, you sent me down<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Mr. Brightman’s shop,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With ninepence in my hand to buy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A little humming-top.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_69" id="page_69">{69}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Well, Mr. Brightman handed down<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A dozen tops or more,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That I might take my choice of one,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then stepped towards the door.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And so I caught one slily up,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And in my pocket hid it,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No one could e’er suspect the thing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So cunningly I did it.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then I took out another top,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And laid my ninepence down,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Laughing to think I owned them both,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But paid for only one.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, when I turned and left the shop,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I felt most dreadfully;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For all the while I was afraid<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That he would follow me.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh sure, thought I, he’ll find it out,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The angry man will come,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I shall never see mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And never more go home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They’ll tie a rope about my neck,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They’ll hang me up on high,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And leave the little, wicked thief<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To hang there till he die.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_70" id="page_70">{70}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Away I ran, in this sad fright,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fast down the nearest lane;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then I stopped and looked behind,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then screamed, and ran again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Trembling, at last I reached my home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And straight I went to bed,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But, oh! in such a shocking plight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That I was almost dead.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No rest nor comfort could I take,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And not a wink of sleep;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All I could do was toss and turn<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From side to side and weep.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But what was worst of all, mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I could not say my prayers;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then I thought my heart would burst,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For I was drowned in tears.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For sure, I cried, God will not hear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A child so wicked pray;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I dare not hope he’ll let me live<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To see another day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thus did I weep till morning dawned,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And yet found no relief;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For, oh! what comfort can there be<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For such a wicked thief?<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_71" id="page_71">{71}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Go, my poor, wretched, guilty child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go, take the top you stole<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And give it to the man you wronged,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And own to him the whole.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then, on your knees before your God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Confess how vile you’ve been;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Beg him to pardon and forgive<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This great and dreadful sin.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And never while you live, again<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To such a deed consent,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Lest God should take away your life<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Before you could repent.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>DOLLY’S NAME.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">My</span> Dolly’s name,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What shall it be?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I want a pretty one,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Let’s see;—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">There’s Bessie, Jessie,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Bell, and Nell;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Well, I think<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’ll call her Bell!<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_72" id="page_72">{72}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;"> -<a href="images/image072.jpg"> -<img src="images/image072.jpg" width="366" height="578" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_73" id="page_73">{73}</a></span></p> - -<h2>COOKING, IN OLD TIMES.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">No</span> little girl or boy hath guessed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The process or the art<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By which the early Indians dressed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And cut their meat apart;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Since neither knife, nor spoon, nor fork,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Had they to aid them in their work.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A piece of flint or sharpened shell,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The place of knife supplied,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And answered every purpose well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To free it from the hide,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To clear the entrails, scrape the hair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And make the carcass clean and fair.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then in the earth a pit was made,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To hold the fish or game,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There, stones at sides and bottom laid,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">An oven it became;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No better did their wants require,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And here they lighted up a fire.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">From this, when gained sufficient heat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The glowing coals were dug,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And here the squaw laid in her meat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With leaves encompassed snug;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With heated stones ’twas covered up<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till time to breakfast, dine, or sup.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_74" id="page_74">{74}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And how, without a pot to boil,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was taught by Indian wit;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A stone was sought, and mighty toil<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A hollow made in it;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And water got its warmth alone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From heated pebbles in it thrown.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then other pebbles, burning hot,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Kept up the boiling heat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And in this strangely-fashioned pot<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was placed the hunter’s meat;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Not over nice, but then, I’m sure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Indian was no epicure.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Fresh fish, well broiled on embers red,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The Indians often saw;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And shell-fish, from their rocky bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Were eaten roast or raw.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus the Good Spirit kindly gave<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His bounteous store to Indian brave.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SUCCOTASH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Though</span> many viands Indians prized—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If served to people civilized,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Would cause disdainful smile;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet one nice dish of times by-gone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The succotash, or beans and corn,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">When cooked in Indian style,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_75" id="page_75">{75}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To some, is thought a greater treat<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Than all the choicest joints of meat<br /></span> -<span class="i4">An epicure might choose;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Poultry and game may both abound<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where this delicious dish is found,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">I would all else refuse.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Give me no fish, nor barbecue;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Pâté-de-fois, and oysters, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Salads and sauces rich,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May tempt an epicure to roam,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But I had rather dine at home,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">On this, my favorite dish.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In early days, the bell would sound,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then olive plants would gather round,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">As fast as they were able,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As soon as beans and corn were seen<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Within the goodly-sized tureen,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">In centre of the table.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">We oft recall those happy times,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Mid varied scenes, in distant climes,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And memory lingers round,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And brings to our enraptured view<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That blessed home—the garden, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Where beans and corn abound.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_76" id="page_76">{76}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And beans and corn do still abound,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And succotash is often found<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Within our early home;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With grateful hearts to God above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We often gather there in love<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Too soon again to roam.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> -<a href="images/image076.jpg"> -<img src="images/image076.jpg" width="345" height="318" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>CLOSE OF THE DAY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">’Tis twilight, and the glorious sun<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hath left his place on high;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And evening shadows have begun<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To steal along the sky.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_77" id="page_77">{77}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The swallow leaves the fields of air,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The busy bee the flower;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And farmers hasten home to share<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The quiet of the hour.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Tho’ small in size, the cricket tries<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His voice so shrill and strong,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And many a frog, from pond and bog,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sends forth its croaking song.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now we will call the children dear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To rest their wearied limbs,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, as the time for bed draws near,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We’ll hear their evening hymns.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And then, Aunt Avis must not fail<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To bring her stock of verse,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For in sweet rhyme a pleasant tale<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She can for us rehearse.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And often, at the close of day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We’ll think of this kind friend,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And ask for some instructive lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which she has sweetly penned.<br /></span> -<span class="i6">———<br /></span> -<span class="i3">How pleasant it seems<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To hear mamma say,<br /></span> -<span class="i3">You’ve been very good,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">My darling, to-day.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_78" id="page_78">{78}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>WONDERFUL INSTINCT OF THE ANT.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">We</span> visit an ant-hill, dear children, to-day.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come, witness the instinct these creatures display;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">“Consider their ways and be wise;”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus spoke a wise king, in the Proverbs, you know,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And though we’re no sluggards, I think if we go<br /></span> -<span class="i4">We’ll find a rich feast for our eyes.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One square foot of earth, though to us very small,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To the ant is a kingdom. Each house has a hall,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">With chambers and passages lined;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And thousands of homes in one square foot of ground,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With swarms of these insects are frequently found,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And such a one now we will find.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The ants’ mode of building we first will explain—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The earth being moistened with dew or with rain,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Large swarms of these insects will meet;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_79" id="page_79">{79}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each one takes a grain that you scarcely could see,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And kneads it and moulds it as nice as can be,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Then pats it down smooth with its feet.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">These diligent builders thus work at their trade,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till hundreds and thousands of houses are made<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Beneath all these little mud balls;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In these tiny ant-hills we see above ground<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Small buildings of full twenty stories are found,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Supported by pillars and walls.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">What wonderful instinct these creatures display<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In the care of their young on a damp rainy day,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">As they run from one room to another!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And up stairs and down stairs they hasten again,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As each little ant, to be kept from the rain,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Must be carried up stairs by its mother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When the clouds are dispersed, again they must run,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">These delicate ants could not bear the hot sun;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And their mothers immediately go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To move their dear children a few stories lower,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_80" id="page_80">{80}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And find them a room upon the ground floor,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And give them their supper below.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Who teaches the ant her food to prepare,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And store it in cells with such diligent care,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">That she all their wants may supply?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis God, my dear child; he provides for them all,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And each little insect, though ever so small,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Is still in the reach of his eye.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The same tender parent who watches o’er you,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Has guided the ant the whole summer through,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And taught her her food to prepare;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when wintry frosts have quite covered the ground,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The ant with her family safely is found,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Still guarded and kept by his care.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>LITTLE EDDIE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The</span> roving eye might vainly seek<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A fairer to behold,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Than little Eddie’s rosy cheek,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When he was eight years old.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And those who love a merry glance,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">No brighter eye had seen,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_81" id="page_81">{81}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor lighter limb to skip and dance,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In meadow or in green.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But Edward’s charms of better kind,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With more delight I praise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For sweet and gentle was his mind,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And pleasant all his ways.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No angry passions, fierce and wild,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">No evil thought or plan,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Had place in this beloved child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Throughout his little span.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In health and strength he grew, till came<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His ninth revolving year,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then sickness seized his little frame,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And suffering most severe.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For many a month upon his bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His feverish hands were laid,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor could he raise his aching head<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Without his mother’s aid.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yet patient lay the little boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And no repining word,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or fretful wish for other’s joy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From Edward’s lip was heard.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_82" id="page_82">{82}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Though gentle summer came and strewed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fresh beauties o’er the earth,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He went not to the field or wood<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To share his playmates’ mirth.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Though winter, from the frozen north,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Brought ice and snow along,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet little Edward went not forth<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To join the merry throng.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The rose departed from his cheek,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The brightness from his eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then his spirit fled to seek<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Its Father in the sky;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Who, in his love, from pain and strife<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such little ones doth take,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And give them endless light and life,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For our Redeemer’s sake.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His body to the earth was given,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And rests beneath the sod,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But Eddie’s spirit went to heaven,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To join in praising God.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Long will his many friends approve<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His manners, sweet and mild,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And tell his innocence and love<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To many a listening child.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_83" id="page_83">{83}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His mother’s heart the sad, the sweet<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Remembrance doth employ,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And full her trust in heaven to meet<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her blessed little boy.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;"> -<a href="images/image083a.jpg"> -<img src="images/image083a.jpg" width="296" height="207" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>FAITHFUL FIDO.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">An</span> emblem of faithfulness<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Here you behold,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As Fido is carefully<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Guarding the gold.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How eager he watches<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For danger around;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So, true to your trust,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">May you ever be found!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 111px;"> -<a href="images/image083b.jpg"> -<img src="images/image083b.jpg" width="111" height="66" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_84" id="page_84">{84}</a></span></p> - -<h2>LITTLE MARY AND HER WICKED FATHER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“What</span> shall I do? What shall I do?” the wicked father said,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As in agony of spirit he rose up from his bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And earnestly entreated his wife to kneel and pray;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Alas! dear Mary’s mother had ne’er been taught the way.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I cannot pray, dear husband,” the trembling wife replied.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Oh, then, what can I do?” in bitterness he cried.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Perhaps,” she said, “our Mary has learned to say her prayers,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She seems so good and holy.” He hastened up the stairs<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Where slept that young disciple, a child of seven years;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her father gently woke her, then, bursting into tears,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He said, “O, can you pray, my child; has Jesus taught you how?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And will you try to pray for your poor father, now?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_85" id="page_85">{85}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She knelt, put up her little hands, “Our Father up in heaven,”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She sweetly said, “for Jesus’ sake, let father be forgiven;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Have mercy, blessed Savior, wash all his sins away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And send thy Holy Spirit to teach him how to pray.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That father rose in penitence, sweet thoughts within him stirred,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A yearning, warm desire to hear from God’s own Word<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those precious truths she thus had lisped in accents sweet and mild;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He placed the Bible in her hand; “Take this and read my child.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She read the holy Book, and, at that midnight hour,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">God sent his blessed Spirit to seal it home with power;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those sweet words of the loving John, that “all who look may live,”<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a><br /></span> -<span class="i0">He heard, and said, “Dear Mary, can Jesus now forgive?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_86" id="page_86">{86}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh listen, father! ‘God <i>so</i> loved,’ he sent his only Son,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all who now believe on that dear, blessed One,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Lamb of God, shall never die, shall have their sins forgiven,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And he will take them home at last, to dwell with him in heaven.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“That is for me!” he cried; “for sinners just like me;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I will look up to Jesus now,—Savior, I come to thee;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I hear those blessed words, ‘Come unto me and live;’<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I can believe,—I do believe! Dear Jesus now forgive.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yes, look to Christ, believing one, he whispers now you may.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He heard, and went, from that glad hour, rejoicing on his way.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 245px;"> -<a href="images/image086.jpg"> -<img src="images/image086.jpg" width="245" height="64" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_87" id="page_87">{87}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 206px;"> -<a href="images/image087.jpg"> -<img src="images/image087.jpg" width="206" height="202" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>SALLIE M——.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I</span> knew a lass, but quite too long<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Was her whole name to weave in song,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But, lest a change she should condemn,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’ll only call her Sarah M——.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now, from her youth, this damsel’s mind<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Was most industriously inclined;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No little girl could sew, or hem,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or stitch, or mend, like Sarah M——.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her father had not wealth to spare,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And many children claimed his care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So little Sarah early learned,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That her own living must be earned.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yet no complaining Sallie made,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That she must work while others played,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_88" id="page_88">{88}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">But set about with right good will,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The task her fingers should fulfil.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Though aching head and weary sight<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Were sometimes hers, her heart was light,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And equal was her well-earned store,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For clothes to wear, and even more.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thus, while from day to day she drew<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her ready needle through and through,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She gained far more than worldly pelf,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She learned to commune with herself.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And this communion, deep and still,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Soon led her heart to know its ill,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And ask her Maker to impart,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For Jesus’ sake, a holy heart.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now, had she spent in early days,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her time in idleness and plays,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At work repining, sought her joys<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With careless girls and idle boys—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her after years had never known<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The independence now her own;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Perhaps those wasted hours had even<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dispelled the thoughts which turned to heaven.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_89" id="page_89">{89}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But care and industry are found,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With, heaven and earth’s best blessing crown’d<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And those who truly value them,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Should early do like Sarah M——.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE PROUD GIRL.</h2> - -<p class="c">JANE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">What</span> makes you wear that muslin dress,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And such a strong, coarse leather shoe,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With cotton stockings, cambric gloves,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And such a coarse straw bonnet, too?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">See here! my shoes are real kid;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just look at them—see how they shine;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My stocking’s silk, my bonnet’s new,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And only see the straw, how fine!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Why, I should fret myself to death,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If I were dressed as mean as you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I always cry and tease mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For everything I see that’s new.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MARY.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">What! cry and tease your dear mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For finery? That would not I;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_90" id="page_90">{90}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">I would not grieve her for the world,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And she would grieve to see me cry.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She gives me everything she can,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And that is everything I want;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I should be a wicked child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To ask for more than she could grant.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, Jane, from what you say yourself,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You’re never happy, and your pride<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is such, that, with this finery,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You never are quite satisfied.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">JANE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But what if there should be a ball,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And you should have a chance to go,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where every one is richly dressed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would you appear among them so?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MARY.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A ball! I never went to one;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I do not care for scenes so gay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But with the birds and trees and flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I can be happy any day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When dear papa comes home at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m joyous as a little bird,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For, after tea, he always tells<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Something amusing he has heard.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_91" id="page_91">{91}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 247px;"> -<a href="images/image091.jpg"> -<img src="images/image091.jpg" width="247" height="274" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You ought to see our pleasant home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Dear Jennie, then you would not say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That I, from this dear, happy group,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Could often wish to be away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Sometimes, he brings us home a book,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then, after supper, down we sit,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He reads to us, while dear mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Takes out her work to sew or knit.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then he will read some wondrous tale,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How mighty nations rose and fell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And sometimes lay aside the book,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And some amusing story tell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_92" id="page_92">{92}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How some have climbed the highest hill,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And yet have murmur’d all the way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">While others walk along the vale,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As pleasant as a summer’s day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“My children,” he will often say,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“You know I cannot give you wealth;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But you have riches dearer far,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And these are innocence and health.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“While thus you live in peace and love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Contented with the blessings given,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And grateful to your God, I trust<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He’ll fit you for the joys of heaven.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then, ere we go to bed at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We kneel together while he prays<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That God would fill our hearts with love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And help us serve him all our days.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But see! while I stand talking here,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The cars are in—papa has come!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now you may go and dance at balls,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But I’ll enjoy myself at home.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 208px;"> -<a href="images/image092.jpg"> -<img src="images/image092.jpg" width="208" height="98" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_93" id="page_93">{93}</a></span></p> - -<h2>WILLIE’S FEARS.</h2> - -<p class="c">PART I.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Willie</span> was nicely tucked in bed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">One cold December night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When he began to scream “Mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come quick, and bring a light!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, I’m so frightened, dear mamma;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What is that noise? Do hark!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Please do not take the candle off<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And leave me in the dark.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I hear no noise,” his mother said;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“What makes my boy so silly?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And what good can the candle do,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My darling little Willie?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Who did you ask to care for you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When you knelt down to pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Before I put you into bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And took the light away?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Remember, love, you prayed to God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And all the long night through,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He will keep watch around your bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And take good care of you.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_94" id="page_94">{94}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“What could it be, my little son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That gave you such a fright?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When you are safe in bed, you know,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I always take the light.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I know you do, but Biddie told<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A story yesterday<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That frightened me; please, dear mamma<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Don’t take the light away.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I’ll leave the light with you to-night;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since Biddie was so silly;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Now think, my dear, your Father’s near,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To guard his little Willie.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>WILLIE’S FEARS.</h2> - -<p class="c">PART II.</p> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Come</span>, Willie, and tell me, my dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What made you so foolish, last night;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I am waiting this morning to hear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The cause of your terrible fright.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">WILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Biddie said that a wolf would come out<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And catch me if I was not good;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That is what I was thinking about<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When I screamed just as loud as I could.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_95" id="page_95">{95}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And where would a wolf come from, pray;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Biddy could not find one, should she try.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’T was a wicked thing for her to say,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She knew she was telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Examine your chamber, my dear;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Look carefully round before night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And if you can find a wolf here,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I will certainly leave you a light.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">WILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Mamma, you are laughing at me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">There’s no wolf anywhere to be found;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I know there is nothing to see<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If I take all the day to look round.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then I hope you will not be afraid;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now tell me, my son, if you’re able,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of what mamma’s candles are made,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You see one stand there on the table.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">WILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Of tallow and cotton, mamma;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The candles are run in a mould.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I went up one day with papa<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To the factory where they are sold.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_96" id="page_96">{96}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Can tallow and cotton, my son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Protect you from harm thro’ the night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When into a mould it is run,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And made in a candle to light?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">WILLIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The candle could not see or hear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I’ll try to remember to-night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That God my kind Father is near,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then, mamma, I’ll not ask for a light.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>“CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD!”</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Savior</span>, keep me near thy side,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Take my hand within thine own,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I would be thy little child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Leave me not to walk alone.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Suffer little ones to come,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thou didst say, when here on earth;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Let my feet no longer roam,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I would know thy heavenly birth.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Take my wicked heart away,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Make me holy like thy Son;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Leave me not from thee to stray,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Leave me not to walk alone.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_97" id="page_97">{97}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 364px;"> -<a href="images/image097.jpg"> -<img src="images/image097.jpg" width="364" height="239" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>THE HELEN MARIA.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">With</span> sails all set<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To catch the breeze,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This noble ship<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now ploughs the seas.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May God in safety<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Kindly keep<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our loved ones while<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Upon the deep!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE YOUTHFUL KING.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">How</span> much God’s holy Book was prized<br /></span> -<span class="i2">By King Josiah in his youth!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At eight years old his reign began,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When no one served the Lord in truth.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_98" id="page_98">{98}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His ancestors were wicked men,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And walked not in God’s holy ways,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But filled Jerusalem with sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And worshipped idols all their days.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The youthful king desired to know<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How to avoid the ways of sin;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He wished to live as David did,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And have his heart made pure within.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Go to the Book of Kings, and learn<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What joy he felt when Shaphan brought<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From God’s high priest his holy law,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And how he had his people taught<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That precious Book to understand,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And take it for their daily guide;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To love the Lord with all their hearts,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And serve no other gods beside.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Make thou that precious Book, O Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A light to guide <i>me</i> all the way;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May it direct my steps at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And safely lead me through the day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I love to read those precious words,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sweet truths I meet on every page;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, may they be my hope in youth,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And my support in hoary age.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_99" id="page_99">{99}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE LITTLE BOY’S REQUEST.</h2> - -<p class="c">Sent to the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting in the summer of 1858.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I</span> am a little boy of twelve, and always tell the truth;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">O pray for me, that I may love the Savior in my youth.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus from the sunny South that precious message came<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To those who meet in Fulton street to pray in Jesus’ name.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear little boy in Georgia, oh write once more, and say<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That you “stand up for Jesus,” that you have found the way,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The narrow way that leads to Heaven; then we once more in prayer<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will thank our heavenly Father, who hath sweetly brought you there.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE INFANT SAVIOR.</h2> - -<p class="c">CHILD.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Mamma</span>, ’tis strange that God most high<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Could come to earth to live and die;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis wonderful that he could be<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Just such a little child as me!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_100" id="page_100">{100}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That he should need a mother’s care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For food to eat and clothes to wear;—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How did the Virgin Mary know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That he was Lord of all below?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His coming, Lillie, was foretold<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By many holy men of old,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And angels had been sent to tell<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That this dear child she loved so well<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Should be her Savior, Christ the Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And she believed his precious Word;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Mary oft pondered in her heart<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those things the angels did impart.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">CHILD.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How could they be so very poor,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When Christ was Lord of all? I’m sure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I should have thought that he would come<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To live in some delightful home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He could have had the sweetest spot<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In all the world,—why did he not?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Why did the infant Savior lie<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In a poor stable? Tell me why<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He did not have a home like ours,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With a nice garden, full of flowers<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_101" id="page_101">{101}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And trees, where lovely birds should sing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To cheer the infant Savior King?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When Jesus came to save our race,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He meant to show such wondrous grace,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That rich and poor alike might see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He condescends their Friend to be.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The poorest child may never fear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To pour its wants into his ear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For Jesus, though a king above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Looks down with sympathy and love.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He knows exactly what we need,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And he will be our Friend indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will kindly listen to our prayer,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all our little sorrows share.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE TWO COUSINS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Two</span> wee-bit cousins went out to ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their carriages rolling side by side;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The air was not damp, or chilly, or raw,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But as bright a day as ever you saw.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Two prettier babies one seldom sees;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nurse often was stopped with remarks like these:<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_102" id="page_102">{102}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">“What beautiful children! Whose can they be?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Do stop those nurses and let us see!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The beauty of each the ladies compare:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“This one is so lovely! do see how fair<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her little round face, so plump and sweet!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I must kiss the child though it is in the street.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“No,—her little cousin is prettier far;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I like a brunette; she will be a bright star.”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The nurses move on, well pleased, I fear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Such flattering remarks from the ladies to hear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Had they seen these children in Water street,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In ragged garments and naked feet,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They would not have stopped them on the way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And flattered them so, I think, to-day.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"> -<a href="images/image102.jpg"> -<img src="images/image102.jpg" width="323" height="258" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">What a sight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They descry<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When Trenton Falls<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Meet their eye!<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_103" id="page_103">{103}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 262px;"> -<a href="images/image103.jpg"> -<img src="images/image103.jpg" width="262" height="254" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>PRECIOUS BIBLE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">How</span> many nations<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Ne’er have heard<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The precious truths<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of God’s own Word;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That the dear Savior<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Came to die,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That we might dwell<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With him on high.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If you had never<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Heard of God,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor ever read<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His Holy Word,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_104" id="page_104">{104}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How very thankful<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You would be,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A copy of God’s<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Book to see!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then, save your pennies,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Children dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That all, these precious<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Truths may hear.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE SACRIFICE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">How</span> hard it was for Abraham<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To say, God’s will be done,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When he was called to offer up<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His dear,—his only son.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Take Isaac, now, thine only son,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">(This was the Lord’s command,)<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“And offer him a sacrifice,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To die by thine own hand.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But Abraham believed that God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His Father, always knew<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Just what was right, and could not tell<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Him a wrong thing to do.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He did not stop to question God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But rose at early dawn,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_105" id="page_105">{105}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Saddled his ass, and called his son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To go that very morn<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A three days journey to a spot<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which God to them would show;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Isaac, with the two young men,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At once prepared to go.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At length the Mount appeared in sight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Abraham told his men,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“I yonder go to worship God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And will come back again.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Much Isaac wondered what it meant,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But he obeyed his sire,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And took the wood upon his arms,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To build his funeral pyre.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Upon the mountain now they stand,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Isaac meekly cries,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Behold the fire and wood! but where’s<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The lamb for sacrifice?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When they had reached Moriah’s top,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The father told his son,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Isaac willingly was bound,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That God’s will might be done.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_106" id="page_106">{106}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Upon the altar, then, the wood<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was all in order laid,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Abraham took the knife in hand,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That knife with naked blade.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then quick an angel of the Lord<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was sent from heaven above,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To gladden faithful Abraham’s heart<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With these sweet words of love.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Lay not thy hand upon the lad,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For now, indeed, I see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thou fearest God, nor hast withheld<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thine only son from me.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And now in blessing I will bless<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thee and thy numerous seed;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All those who have thy simple faith<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Shall be my friends<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> indeed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“When I shall give mine only Son<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To die on Calvary,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The Lamb of God for sinners slain,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thine offspring he shall be.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And has “Our Father” sent his Son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His only Son, from heaven<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To die for us that we might live<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And have our sins forgiven?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_107" id="page_107">{107}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lord, help me, then, to read thy Word,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Believing all it saith;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For I may be a friend of God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If I have Abraham’s faith.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>“REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY.”</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I</span> love the Sabbath day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of all the days the best;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thy sacred hours are sweet to me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, day of holy rest!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I love the Sabbath bell,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It says, “Do not delay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hasten, dear children, from your homes;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come, worship God to-day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I love the Sabbath School;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oft, as I take my seat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I pray that early I may learn<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To sit at Jesus’ feet.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, blessed Sabbath day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thou best of all the seven;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thy precious hours I would improve,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To fit my soul for heaven!<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_108" id="page_108">{108}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;"> -<a href="images/image108.jpg"> -<img src="images/image108.jpg" width="429" height="357" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_109" id="page_109">{109}</a></span></p> - -<h2>CHARLIE AND HIS YOUTHFUL TEACHER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Come</span>, now, my dear boy, confess what you’ve done,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To your loving, kind Father on high;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You cannot conceal from the All-seeing One<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The fact that you’re telling a lie.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So said the young teacher of Birmingham school,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To Charlie, when no one was nigh;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She grieved that her pupil had broken a rule,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Still more that he’d told her a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His face, once so joyous, was then very sad,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">His heart was too full to reply,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As Miss Mary pressed home on the dear little lad<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The fact of his telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh come, now in penitence tell me, dear boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The whole truth, and then we will try<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And ask the dear Savior his grace to employ,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To guard you from telling a lie.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, though the child wore a sad look of distress,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_110" id="page_110">{110}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i4">No penitent tear dimm’d his eye;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All arguments failed;—Charlie would not confess<br /></span> -<span class="i4">That he had been telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The teacher stood there, with her heart raised in prayer<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To One whom she felt ever nigh;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh how could she bear that her pupil should dare<br /></span> -<span class="i4">To grieve him by telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Dear Father, I know not what course to pursue;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Oh guide me,” she said, with a sigh;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“I am young and too helpless to know what to do<br /></span> -<span class="i4">With a child who is telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Leave not this dear child to perish, I pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Oh listen, and hear my sad cry!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">What more can I say? I must send him away,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">He will not repent of this lie.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A change soon was wrought, when Miss Mary was taught<br /></span> -<span class="i4">By God, her kind Father on high,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That his Word must be brought, and thence must be sought<br /></span> -<span class="i4">His threatenings to those who will lie.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_111" id="page_111">{111}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Charlie reads of the joys of the ransomed above,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And learns that this home in the sky<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Forever is closed by our Father in love,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">From those who on earth learn to lie.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To that Heavenly City, so good and so fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The Lamb will a welcome deny,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And no little child can e’er hope to go there,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">“Who loveth and maketh a lie.”<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Bible has conquered! The teacher with joy<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Sees that tears are now filling his eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She kneels and implores for her penitent boy<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Forgiveness for telling a lie.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE SAILOR AND THE MONKEYS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Once</span>, in the hope of honest gain<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From Afric’s golden store,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A brisk young sailor cross’d the main,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And landed on her shore.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And leaving soon the sultry strand,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where his fair vessel lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He travell’d o’er the neighboring land,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To trade in peaceful way.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_112" id="page_112">{112}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Full many a toy had he to sell,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And caps of scarlet dye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All such things as he knew full well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would please the native’s eye.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But as he travell’d through the woods,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He longed to take a nap,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And opening there his pack of goods,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Took out a scarlet cap,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And drew it on his head, thereby<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To shield him from the sun,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then soundly slept, nor thought an eye<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had seen what he had done.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But many a monkey dwelling there,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Though hidden from his view,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Had closely watched the whole affair,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And longed to do so too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And while he slept did each one seize<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A cap to deck his brows,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then climbing up the highest trees,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sat chattering on the boughs.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The sailor wak’d, his caps were gone,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And loud and long he grieves,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till, looking up with heart forlorn,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He spied at once the thieves.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_113" id="page_113">{113}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With cap of red upon each head,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Full fifty faces grim,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The sailor sees amid the trees,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With eyes all fixed on him.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He brandish’d quick a mighty stick,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But could not reach their bower,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor yet could stone, for every one<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was far beyond his power.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Alas! he thought, I’ve safely brought<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My caps far over seas,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But could not guess it was to dress<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such little rogues as these.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then quickly down he threw his own,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And loud in anger cried,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Take this one too, you thievish crew,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since you have all beside.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But, quick as thought the caps were caught<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From every monkey’s crown,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, like himself, each little elf<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Threw his directly down.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He then with ease did gather these,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And in his pack did bind,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then through the woods convey’d his goods<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sold them to his mind.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_114" id="page_114">{114}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 275px;"> -<a href="images/image114.jpg"> -<img src="images/image114.jpg" width="275" height="302" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>THE MORNING WALK.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The</span> sun is up, the air is clear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The flowers are blooming all around,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The dew-drops glitter on the grass,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And pretty daisies deck the ground.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How sweet it is to go abroad,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And breathe this lovely morning air,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So fragrant with perfume of flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While everything seems fresh and fair.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The busy insects flitting round,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The warbling birds on every tree,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_115" id="page_115">{115}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each blade of grass, each opening flower,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All seem to speak, great God, of thee.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear Father, thou hast kindly kept<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thy child from danger all the night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And now, my heart is filled with joy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As I behold the morning light.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And I would speak of all thy love;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, fill my heart with grateful praise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And may I for these bounteous gifts,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Both love and serve thee all my days.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>STRAWBERRY GIRL.</h2> - -<p class="c">EMILY.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Mamma</span>, do hear Eliza cry!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She wants a piece of cake, I know,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She will not stir to school without;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Do give her some, and let her go.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh no, my dear, that will not do,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She has behaved extremely ill;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She does not think of minding me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And tries to gain her stubborn will.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This morning, when she had her milk,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She gave her spoon a sudden twirl<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_116" id="page_116">{116}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And threw it all upon the floor;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Oh, she’s a naughty, wicked girl!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now, forsooth, she cries for cake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But that, my dear, I must refuse,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For children never should object<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To eating what their parents choose.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That pretty little girl who came<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To sell the strawberries here to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Would have been very glad to eat<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What my Eliza threw away;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Because her parents are so poor<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That they have neither milk nor meat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But gruel and some Indian cake<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is all the children have to eat.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They have beside three little girls,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mary’s the oldest of them all,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And hard enough she has to work<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To help the rest, though she’s so small.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">As soon as strawberries are ripe,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She picks all day and will not stop<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To play, nor eat a single one<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Till she has filled her basket up.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then down she comes to sell them all,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And lays the money up to buy<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_117" id="page_117">{117}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her stockings and her shoes to wear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When cold and wintry storms are nigh.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then Mary has to trudge away,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And gather wood thro’ piles of snow,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To keep the little children warm,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When the frost bites and cold winds blow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, then, as she comes home at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Hungry and tired, with cold benumb’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How would she jump to find a bowl<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of bread and milk all nicely crumb’d.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But she, dear child, has no such thing;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of gruel and some Indian cake,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Whether she chooses it or not,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Poor Mary must her supper make.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now, my child, will you behave<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So ill again another day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Be cross, and pout, and cry for cake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And throw your breakfast all away?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">ELIZA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh never, never, dear mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m sorry that I gave you pain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Forgive me, and I never will<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Be such a naughty girl again.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_118" id="page_118">{118}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 362px;"> -<a href="images/image118.jpg"> -<img src="images/image118.jpg" width="362" height="326" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>ENVY.</h2> - -<p class="c">MELINDA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I</span> wish I had a coach, mamma;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">O, how I should delight to ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Like Jennie Wright, where’er I pleased,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And have a servant at my side.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The other day, as Ann and I<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Were walking down the meadow lane,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With John and Mary Anna Smith,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who should go by but little Jane!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_119" id="page_119">{119}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The man drove slow, that Miss might view<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The charming prospect all around;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How proud she felt that she could ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While we were walking on the ground!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">We all ran off and left the coach,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But while we gathered flowers for you,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Mamma, the servant followed us,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For Miss must have some daisies too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She seemed resolved to let us know<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That she could have just what she pleased,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then the new coach whirled off, and so<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I really hope her mind was eased.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">What was it, ma, that vexed me so<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And spoiled the pleasure of the day?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I should have had a charming walk<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If that old coach had kept away.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">’Twas envy, child, an odious sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That springs from ignorance and pride;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You grieved to see another taste<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Enjoyments to yourself denied.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That little Miss you envied so<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Lived six long months in constant pain,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_120" id="page_120">{120}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then the disorder seized her feet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And she will never walk again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I chanced to be at Mr. Wright’s<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That very day, when Jane came home;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Her brother took her in his arms,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And brought her sobbing to the room.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her mother tenderly enquired<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What made her weep. “Alas!” she cried,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Why, mother, will you urge your child<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To seek for pleasure in a ride?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“At first, I looked with some delight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On the sweet fields so green and gay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When happy children passed along,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As merry as the birds in May.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“They laughed, they jumped, they climbed the hedge,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For flowers their pretty wreaths to twine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then they wandered through the fields,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To gather blackberries from the vine.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I wept, that with such joyous sports<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I never more could take a part;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Kind Peter saw how sad I felt,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And tried to cheer my heavy heart.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_121" id="page_121">{121}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“He brought me berries from the vine,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He gathered daisies nice and sweet;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But on the flowers I could not look,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The blackberries I could not eat.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, turn, I said, and drive me home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each object gives my heart a pain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And let me in my chamber hide,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And never see a coach again.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now, dear Melinda, do you wish<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That you was Jennie Wright, to ride<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In a new coach whene’er you please,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And have a servant at your side?<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MELINDA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, no, indeed; for now, mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I see how wicked I have been;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You spoke most truly when you said<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That envy was an odious sin.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Poor Jennie Wright! how very strange<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That I should think her proud or vain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How wicked and unkind it was<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For me to envy little Jane.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I shall feel thankful I can walk<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whene’er I chance a coach to meet;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor envy those again who ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So long as I can use my feet.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_122" id="page_122">{122}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 544px;"> -<a href="images/image122.jpg"> -<img src="images/image122.jpg" width="544" height="344" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_123" id="page_123">{123}</a></span></p> - -<h2>REMEMBER THE POOR.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“The poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do them -good."—[<span class="smcap">Words of Jesus.</span></p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">God’s</span> blessing on those<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who remember the poor!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If I had been born<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In the Five Points, I’m sure<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I should have been grateful<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For work and for food;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And this House of Industry<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Must do them great good.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Our hearts should be filled<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With pity for those<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who suffer in winter<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For want of warm clothes.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Who suffer with hunger<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For want of nice bread,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">While we from God’s bounty<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are constantly fed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then let us remember<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How much they endure,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Those dear little children<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So wretched and poor,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_124" id="page_124">{124}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And do what we can<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To provide them with food,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For all our spare pennies<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would do them great good.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>HOLIDAY GIFT.</h2> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">My</span> children, I am glad to see<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your holidays have come;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For much it does delight my heart<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To see you all at home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And that you have behaved so well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Gives me still greater joy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For greatly does your happiness<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your mother’s thoughts employ.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The promise that I gave you all<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Most strictly I regard,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And dearly do I love to give<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My children their reward.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So here is a guinea, Charles, for you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To buy that pretty sword,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Which, when you asked me for last spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I could not then afford.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And, Emma, one for you and Ann,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Between you to divide;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_125" id="page_125">{125}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">As Charles is older than yourselves,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I hope you’re satisfied.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">EMMA.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh yes, mamma, ’tis quite enough,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We could not wish for more;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We never in our lives have had<br /></span> -<span class="i2">One half as much before.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">CHARLES.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Mamma, you seem to be perplexed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With some unpleasant care;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You smile, but then ’tis not the smile<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That I have seen you wear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Pray, tell me is it anything<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That I have said or done?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I hope, mamma, I never shall<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Be an ungrateful son.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, no, my child; you ever have<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Been dutiful and kind,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But still, there is a circumstance<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That has perplexed my mind.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">You know that worthy family<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That lived up on the hill,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_126" id="page_126">{126}</a></span>—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Poor Mr. Smith, the clever man,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That used to tend the mill.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Last spring, his wife and little ones<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Were very sick, you know;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When they recovered, he was seized,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And died a week ago.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This very morning, Mrs. Smith<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Came here to ask relief;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Poor woman! she looked pale and thin,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And overwhelmed with grief.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Dear madam, I am grieved to come<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And trouble you,” she said;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“But new afflictions seem to fall<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In torrents on my head.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Some time before my husband died,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We owed a quarter’s rent,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He laid it up, and would, no doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Have paid it—every cent.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But when our earnings all were stopp’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And we so long were ill,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I was obliged to take it all,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To pay the doctor’s bill.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_127" id="page_127">{127}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“This very morn our landlord came,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sternly bade me pay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I told him all, and begged he’d wait<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A little longer day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">‘</span>Wait longer? No, indeed I wont;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Too long I have waited now;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So pay, or you’ll march out of doors,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I shall take your cow.’<span class="lftspc">”</span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The widow wept, and then she said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“I am willing to be poor,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But yet to lose my only cow<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Seems too much to endure.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">CHARLES.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Here, take this money, ma, and pay<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As far as it will go;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I had rather never have a sword<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Than she should suffer so.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">EMMA AND ANN.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And ours, mamma; do take it all,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To pay that cruel man;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And pray make haste before he comes<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To frighten them again.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Come to my arms, my precious ones,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I only meant to see<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_128" id="page_128">{128}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Whether your little hearts were warmed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With sweet humanity.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I’ll take your money for this debt,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And never did I pay<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A sum away with such delight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As I shall do this day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Come, then, my children, let us go;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It is a bless’d employ<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To cheer the widow’s heart and fill<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The fatherless with joy.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 246px;"> -<a href="images/image128.jpg"> -<img src="images/image128.jpg" width="246" height="149" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, do not neglect<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your practice, my dear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Papa will expect<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Some good music to hear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For he has been absent<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Almost a whole year.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_129" id="page_129">{129}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> -<a href="images/image129.jpg"> -<img src="images/image129.jpg" width="345" height="398" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>NURSERY CHILDREN NEEDING HOMES.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Two</span> orphan children, under five,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With pleasant, sunny faces,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Brother and sister, much attached,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are candidates for ‘places.’<span class="lftspc">”</span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thus writes a lady from the Home;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Fred has asked papa,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_130" id="page_130">{130}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">To take them both, and let them live<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With him and dear mamma.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Papa replies: “My dear, I think<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We’ve boys enough already;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But we will take the little girl—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A play-mate for our Freddy.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">O, must these little orphans part?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What will the poor boy do?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He hesitates a moment, then<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He says, “we’ll take the two!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For ’twould be very hard, to part<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The sister from her brother;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Poor little friendless ones, who now<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So dearly love each other.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Mamma will not consent, I’m sure,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">These orphans thus to part,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There’s room enough to hold them both,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In her warm, loving heart.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Fred runs at once to ask mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">If she will be a mother<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To this dear little girl and boy—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The sister and the brother.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_131" id="page_131">{131}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She prays her Savior, then, to guide,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And teach her what to do;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Fred soon returns to tell papa,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Yes; we must take the two!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For while she knelt in earnest prayer,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The Savior seemed to say,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In sweetest accents to her heart,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Work, while ’tis called to-day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Take these dear little orphans home—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go, feed these lambs for me,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I will care for you and yours,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I will your Savior be.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, will not other parents hear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The Savior sweetly plead,<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><i>For my sake</i>, take these orphans home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And be my friends indeed.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>ALMIRA AND MINNIE.</h2> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Almira</span>, go and get your work,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sit with me, my dear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, Minnie, you may read to us,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We will with pleasure hear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Two little misses thus employed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is a delightful sight;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_132" id="page_132">{132}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then after tea the time’s your own,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And you may play till night.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Minnie, why do you look displeased?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Don’t you approve my plan?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Well, alter it yourself, my dear;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Improve it if you can.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MINNIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I’m tired of sitting here alone,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Mamma, with only you;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m tired of work, indeed I am,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m tired of reading, too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And only just Almira here,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And Fido now to play;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If I’d my will I’d go abroad<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Most gladly every day.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MOTHER.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Minnie, do you know Peggy Hill,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That little, modest child,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who sometimes comes on errands here?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She lives with Mrs. Wild.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She came the other day when you<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was sitting here with me;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Almira sewed, you had a book,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And read quite prettily.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_133" id="page_133">{133}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She tried to do her errand twice;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But when she came to speak,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I saw her turn aside and wipe<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A tear from off her cheek.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I thought it strange, and led her out;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“What ails you, child,” said I;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Pray have you hurt yourself, or what<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Can thus have made you cry?”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, no,” she said, “I am not hurt;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I am to blame, I fear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But such a tender sight as this<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will always force a tear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For I had tender parents once,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Affectionate and kind;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But they are dead; they both have gone,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And left their child behind.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I had a little sister, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And many a pleasant day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We with our mother worked and read<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The cheerful hours away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But when we lost our parents, ma’am,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our living all was fled;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And we were placed in strangers’ hands,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To earn our daily bread.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_134" id="page_134">{134}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“My sister could not long support<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The hardship of her fate;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She left this miserable world<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sought a happier state.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Since then I have mourn’d my heavy lot;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Alone, without relief,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have no friend to pity me<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Or listen to my grief.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“My mistress lives in wealth and ease,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From want and sorrow free;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She never knew what labor was,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor can she feel for me.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I work from morn till night, and try<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To please her all the while,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And think sometimes I’d give the world<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just for one pleasant smile.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“But every day I give offence,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In spite of all my care;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And cruel words from day to day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It is my lot to bear.”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<p class="c">MINNIE.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, how I pity Peggy Hill!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her case is sad indeed;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_135" id="page_135">{135}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m thankful for my happy home,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Dear mother, let me read.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And let Almira get her work;—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Fido, you run away<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till after tea, then on the green<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We’ll run, and jump, and play.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;"> -<a href="images/image135.jpg"> -<img src="images/image135.jpg" width="348" height="450" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_136" id="page_136">{136}</a></span></p> - -<h2>THE INDIAN AND THE PLANTER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">By</span> the door of his house a planter stood,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In fair Virginia’s clime,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When the setting sun had tinged the wood<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With its golden hue sublime.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The lands of this planter were broadly spread,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He lacked not gold or gear,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And his house had plenty of meat and bread<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To make them goodly cheer.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">An Indian came from the forest deep,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A hunter in weary plight,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who in humble accents asked to sleep<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Neath the planter’s roof that night.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To the Indian’s need he took no heed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But forbade his longer stay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Then give me,” he said, “but a crust of bread,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I’ll travel on my way.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In wrath the planter this denied,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Forgetting the golden rule;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Then give me, for mercy’s sake,” he cried,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“A cup of water cool.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“All day I have travell’d o’er fen and bog,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In chase of the bounding deer;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_137" id="page_137">{137}</a></span>”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Away,” cried the planter, “you Indian dog,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For you shall have nothing here.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Indian turned to his distant home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Though hungry and travel sore,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And the planter enter’d his goodly dome,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor thought of the Indian more.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When the leaves were sere, to chase the deer,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This self same planter went,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And bewildered stood, in a dismal wood,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When the day was fully spent.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He had lost his way in the chase that day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And in vain to find it tried,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When a glimmering light fell on his sight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From a wigwam close beside.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He thither ran, and a savage man<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Received him as a guest;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He brought him cheer, the flesh of deer,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And gave him of the best.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then kindly spread for the white man’s bed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His softest skins beside,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And at break of day, through the forest way,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Went forth to be his guide.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_138" id="page_138">{138}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At the forest’s verge, did the planter urge,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His service to have paid,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But the savage bold refused his gold,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And thus to the white man said:<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I came of late to the white man’s gate,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And weary and faint was I,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet neither meat, nor water sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Did the Indian’s wants supply.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Again should he come to the white man’s home<br /></span> -<span class="i2">My service let him pay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor say, again to the fainting man,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You ‘Indian dog, away!’<span class="lftspc">”</span><br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE INDIAN AND THE BASKET.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Among</span> Rhode Island’s early sons,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Was one whose orchards fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By plenteous and well-flavored fruit,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Rewarded all his care.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For household use they stored the best,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And all the rest conveyed<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To neighboring mill, were ground and press’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And into cider made.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_139" id="page_139">{139}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The wandering Indian oft partook<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The generous farmer’s cheer;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He liked his food, but better still<br /></span> -<span class="i4">His cider fine and clear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And as he quaff’d the pleasant draught,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The kitchen fire before,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He longed for some to carry home,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And asked for more and more.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The farmer saw a basket new<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Beside the Indian bold,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And smiling said, “I’ll give to you<br /></span> -<span class="i4">As much as that will hold.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Both laughed, for how could liquid thing<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Within a basket stay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But yet the jest unanswering,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The Indian went his way,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When next from rest the farmer sprung,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">So very cold the morn,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The icicles like diamonds hung<br /></span> -<span class="i4">On every spray and thorn.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The brook that babbled by his door<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Was deep, and clear, and strong,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And yet unfettered by the frost,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Leaped merrily along.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_140" id="page_140">{140}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The self-same Indian by this brook.<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The astonished farmer sees;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He laid his basket in the stream,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Then hung it up to freeze.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And by this process oft renewed,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The basket soon became<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A well-glazed vessel, tight and good,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Of most capacious frame.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The door he entered speedily,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And claim’d the promis’d boon,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The farmer, laughing heartily,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Fulfilled his promise soon.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Up to the basket’s brim he saw<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The sparkling cider rise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And to rejoice his absent squaw,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">He bore away the prize.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Long lived the good man at the farm,—<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The house is standing still,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And still leaps merrily along,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The much diminished rill.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And his descendants still remain,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">And tell to those who ask it,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The story they have often heard<br /></span> -<span class="i4">About the <span class="smcap">Indian’s basket</span>.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_141" id="page_141">{141}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;"> -<a href="images/image141.jpg"> -<img src="images/image141.jpg" width="324" height="445" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>GRANDMAMMA’S STORY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Oh</span>, tell some tales of ancient times,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Dear grandmamma, again;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When you was young as we are now,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said little Mary Jane.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_142" id="page_142">{142}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She raised her mild blue eyes, and said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I have a tale to tell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Which once I read, when I was young,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And now remember well.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">My mother bought the book for me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And brought it home one day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When I had been a naughty girl,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And passionate at play.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Although the tale was very sad,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I tell it now, that you<br /></span> -<span class="i0">May see what very wicked things,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">An angry child may do.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>GRANDMAMMA’S STORY OF THE BLIND CHILD.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Some</span> ladies once agreed with me,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To give our little ones a sail;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The day was fine, the summer wind<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just blew a soft and pleasant gale.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">We stepped on board a pleasure boat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With gayest colors painted o’er,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And in the bosom of the stream,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We sweetly sailed along the shore.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_143" id="page_143">{143}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Our children could not keep their seats,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But every sportive girl and boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With hearts as cheerful as the day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Did skip about the deck for joy;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Except one pretty little girl,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who sat alone with downcast eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And now and then I saw a tear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And thought I heard a broken sigh.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I wondered much that one so young,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Should seem so pensively inclined,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And asked her mother what it meant;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Alas!” said she, “the child is blind.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“One day, I never shall forget,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She and her brother were at play;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Something she said offended him,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And so they had a childish fray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“She turned her head and gave a look,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’T was half a smile and half grimace;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His temper rose,—he caught a fork<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And threw it in his sister’s face.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“It struck her eye, the blood gushed out,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He screamed, and turn’d as pale as death;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, never shall my memory lose<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That dreadful scene while I have breath.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_144" id="page_144">{144}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For three long, melancholy months,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We kept her in a darkened room,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With a close bandage round her eyes,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where not a ray of light could come.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The doctors tried their utmost skill<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To keep her sight, but all in vain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At length the wounded eyes were healed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But she will never see again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Her brother’s heart is almost broke;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">‘Oh, Harriet,’ he often cries,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">‘If I was owner of the world,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’d give it to restore your eyes.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">‘</span>But you will laugh and play no more,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor your dear parents’ faces see,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor trees, nor fields, nor blooming flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And never will you look on me.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">‘</span>Oh, wrretched, miserable boy!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What has my wicked temper done;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ve shut my dear, dear sister’s eyes<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Forever from the cheerful sun!’<span class="lftspc">”</span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This story, children, made me feel<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How very wicked I had been;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To lose my temper when at play,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I felt to be a grievous sin.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_145" id="page_145">{145}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now, my dears, said grandmamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">May this sad tale I’ve told to-day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Lead you to guard your hearts with care,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And ne’er be angry when at play.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>BLACKBERRY GIRL.</h2> - -<p class="c">PART II.</p> - -<p class="c">Part I. in “Songs for Little Ones at Home.”</p> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“What</span> have you in that basket, child?”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“They are blackberries, Miss, all picked to-day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They’re very nice, and fully ripe;—Do<br /></span> -<span class="i2">look at them, and taste them, pray.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, yes, they are very nice indeed!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Here’s four-pence, that will buy a few,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Not quite so many as I could eat;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">However, I must make them do.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“No, Miss; but you must take the whole.”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“I can’t, indeed, my money’s spent;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I should be glad to buy them all,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But I have not another cent.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And if you had a thousand, Miss,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’d not accept of one from you;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_146" id="page_146">{146}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Pray take them! they are all your own,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And take the little basket, too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Have you forgot that little girl<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You last year gave a bonnet to?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You may, perhaps, but ever will<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That little girl remember you.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For ever since I’ve been to church,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And much do I delight to go,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For there I learned the way to heaven,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which I so long had wished to know.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“One day I thought within myself,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That pretty basket Billy wove<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’ll fill with fruit for that dear Miss,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For sure ’t will be a work of love.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And so, this morning, up I rose,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While yet the fields were wet with dew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And picked the nicest I could find,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And brought them fresh and sweet to you.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I know the gift is small, indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For such a lady to receive;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But yet, I hope you’ll not refuse<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All that poor Phebe has to give.”<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_147" id="page_147">{147}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SUPPER FOR THE ROBINS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">These</span> dear little birdies<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will not fly away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They come for their breakfast<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And supper each day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They come in the morning,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At noon, and at night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And always are welcomed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With greatest delight.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And crumbs in abundance<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They always have found<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Just under the window,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Spread out on the ground.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now Minnie and Ella<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are watching to see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their dear little robins<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come down from the tree,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Where they have been warbling<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A beautiful lay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To charm the dear children<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At close of the day.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 248px;"> -<a href="images/image147.jpg"> -<img src="images/image147.jpg" width="248" height="63" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_148" id="page_148">{148}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> -<a href="images/image148.jpg"> -<img src="images/image148.jpg" width="360" height="510" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_149" id="page_149">{149}</a></span></p> - -<h2>BREAKFAST FOR THE ROBINS</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">When</span> supper is over,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The birds fly away,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And sing a new song<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At dawn of the day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">These sweet little robins<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such lovely notes raise,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They seem to be singing<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their Creator’s praise.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Awake, little Minnie!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come, Ella, arise!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The sun is beginning<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His course in the skies.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Your birdies already<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are waiting for you<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To give them their breakfast;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now what will you do?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They rouse from their slumbers,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then kneel down to pray;—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus Minnie and Ella<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Begin the new day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Before their own breakfast<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is ready, they go<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_150" id="page_150">{150}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">To see if the robins<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are waiting below.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And there one dear songster<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is sure to be found<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As soon as his breakfast<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is spread on the ground.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">No</span> rain had descended, the fountains were dry,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The streamlets no water afford;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No clouds, thick and heavy, bespoke a supply,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When a voice to Elijah descends from on high,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And spoke the commands of the Lord.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Arise, O Elijah! to Zion repair,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Awhile in Zarephath remain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A poor widow woman will welcome thee there,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To thee of her little a portion will spare,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And with food and with water sustain.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The Prophet arose at the heav’nly desire,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His steps to Zarephath he bound,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When lo! the poor widow in humble attire,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And busied with gathering sticks for her fire,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At the gates of the city he found.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_151" id="page_151">{151}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He said, “I have travelled a wearisome way;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From Cherith to-day I have hied;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I have passed by no fountain my thirst to allay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then fetch me a draught of cold water, I pray,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Lest I perish with thirst at thy side.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She turned, and again to the woman he spoke,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“A stranger am I in the land,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And since in compassion my thirst thou wilt slake,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Remember I also am hunger’d, and take<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A morsel of bread in thy hand.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She answered, “As liveth thy Maker and Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">No bread for thy hunger have I;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of oil but a little my cruise can afford,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But an handful of meal in my barrel is stor’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And from none can I ask a supply.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For fuel to dress this small portion, to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To the gates of the city I hie,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And now with these sticks I return on my way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That my son and myself may our hunger allay,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then calmly resign us to die.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_152" id="page_152">{152}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then answered Elijah, “As thou hast begun,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go on till thy home shall appear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Make cakes of thy meal, and first bake for me one,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then after another for thee and thy son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And your hunger allay without fear.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For thus saith thy Maker, the meal shall not waste,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And the oil in the cruise shall not fail,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But thou and thy household his bounty shall taste,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till the day when his wrath and his anger is past,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And showers of plenty prevail.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No need had Elijah the words to repeat,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To the house of the widow he went;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Many days he sojourned in the quiet retreat,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And she, and her son, and the prophet did eat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And the oil and the meal were not spent.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yet more would you hear how this widow was bless’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How her son from the dead was restored,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go turn to the Book where the tale is express’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of Elijah, beloved of the Lord.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_153" id="page_153">{153}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SKATING.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Do</span> not fear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To venture out,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Tho’ Jack Frost<br /></span> -<span class="i2">May be about.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Come, enjoy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This bracing air;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Ice is solid<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Everywhere.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">It is safe<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To skate or slide;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">See how swiftly<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now we glide!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">O’er the pond,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All together;—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, what healthy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Charming weather!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 347px;"> -<a href="images/image153.jpg"> -<img src="images/image153.jpg" width="347" height="363" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_154" id="page_154">{154}</a></span></p> - -<h2>TO MY INFANT NEPHEW.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Is</span> this new life so sweet to thee, my little baby boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That thus thy minutes seem to be a constant course of joy?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I gaze upon thy laughing face, I hear thy joyous tone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till the glad feeling of thy heart oft passes to my own.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No titled infant for whose brow a coronet shines fair<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Is blest with better health than thou or nursed with tenderer care;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And be it prince or peasant’s child, the station high or low,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">These blessings are the only ones its earliest days can know.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I would not damp thy present joy with tales of future care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor paint the ills of life, dear boy, which thou must feel and bear;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The early dew is fair to view although it vanish soon,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And lovely is the morning flower that withers when ’tis noon.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_155" id="page_155">{155}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thy heavenly Father, by whose will a living soul is thine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By his good Spirit visits still this heritage divine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And children who in innocence the path of life hath trod,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hear often in their tender minds the indwelling voice of God.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">As reason dawns, as mind expands, in childhood’s opening day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thou oft wilt hear his high commands, to shun the evil way;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And every evil thought resigned to this divine control,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will bring a sweetness to thy mind, a blessing to thy soul.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Dear as thy welfare is to me, I cannot frame a thought,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I cannot breathe a wish for thee with happiness more fraught,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Than that this heavenly Friend may prove the Ruler of thy way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And thy young heart incline to love, to hearken, and obey.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_156" id="page_156">{156}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SLEEP, LITTLE BIRDIE!</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Hush</span>, little birdie,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’ll sing you a song,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">One that is sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And not very long;<br /></span> -<span class="i10">Peep! peep!<br /></span> -<span class="i10">Go to sleep!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lullaby, birdie!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">While taking your rest,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nothing shall harm you,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You’re safe in your nest.<br /></span> -<span class="i10">Peep! peep!<br /></span> -<span class="i10">Go to sleep!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE WOUNDED FOOT.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The</span> children are grieved, for the poor little boy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Has wounded his foot with a thorn;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Willie and Fred have left their play,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And both of them have gone<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To ask mamma to run to the spot,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And try to relieve the pain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She will help the dear boy, but he must not run<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Without stockings and shoes again.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_157" id="page_157">{157}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 531px;"> -<a href="images/image157.jpg"> -<img src="images/image157.jpg" width="531" height="373" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_158" id="page_158">{158}</a></span></p> - -<h2>LITTLE ELLEN’S REQUEST.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I <span class="smcap">do</span> not like this dress of mine,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said little Ellen to her mother;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“The girls at school are dressed so fine,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I wish that I could have another.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Do buy me one that’s very gay,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And a new bonnet trimmed with lace,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Unless I look as smart as they<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I feel ashamed to show my face.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her mother said, “ Ellen, my dear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your clothes, I’m sure, are very good;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor would I wish you to appear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So fine and gaudy if you could.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I try to dress you neat and plain,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That I may buy you useful books;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And if you’re neither proud nor vain,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’m sure our friends will like your looks.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Whene’er I dress you, I must say,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would God be pleased with things like these?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For, Ellen, we must seek each day<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In all we do our God to please.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_159" id="page_159">{159}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>MILKING THE COWS.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">’T was near the close of day, yet bright<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The sun shone o’er the hill,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And pour’d a flood of golden light<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On every object still.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With hat in hand, and reeking brows,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Did little Thomas come,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For he had helped to bring the cows<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From distant pasture home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now, seated on the gray stone wall<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which all the yard surrounds,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His eye attentive noted all<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That passed within its bounds.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With snow-white pail, the dairy’s pride,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each milker seated low,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Rested his head against the side<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of every gentle cow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">From Brown and Pied, from Black and Red,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The milk with care was drawn;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But Brindle fiercely shook her head<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And raised her pointed horn.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Away she ran; but boy and man<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Soon overtook and tied her,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_160" id="page_160">{160}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And sturdy Ben, to milk her then,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sat closely down beside her.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So! So! they cried, stand steady now.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But all would not avail,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For with her foot the restless cow<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Soon overthrew the pail.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">On dirt and sward the milk was pour’d<br /></span> -<span class="i2">By Brindle’s luckless blow,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And in a pen they put her then<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Till she could gentle grow.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The rest were sent, the milking done,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To graze in grassy field,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till summon’d by the rising sun<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their morning’s milk to yield.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>LOST CHILD.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">In</span> Newport, through the silent street<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At midnight came a hum<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of voices and of passing feet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And loudly-beaten drum.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A child was lost,—none could be found<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In alley, street, or lane;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His friends in sorrow searched around,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But search was all in vain.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_161" id="page_161">{161}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Though many a lantern lent its aid<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And torches beamed on high,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In vain the mournful party stray’d<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Till morning lit the sky.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then by the water’s side they came,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And there, oh, sad to say!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All cold and wet, his lifeless frame<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Upon the sea-weed lay.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">That morning, when he strayed from home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Poor little Johnnie plann’d<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Along the water’s edge to roam,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Among the yellow sand.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And, as he sported free from care<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The slippery rocks around,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The rising tide surprised him there,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And there the boy was drowned.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They bore him home, a mournful sight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then, speedily arrayed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His little form in spotless white<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was in a coffin laid.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Next came his friends, a mournful band,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To form the funeral throng,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where many children hand in hand<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Walked silently along.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_162" id="page_162">{162}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In grave-yard green may now be seen<br /></span> -<span class="i2">O’er Johnnie’s grave a stone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And letters fair engraven there<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His name and age make known.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>GOD, THE GREAT CREATOR.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Dear</span> mother,” one morning a little boy said,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Pray tell me by whom this fine country was made;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">At home in our town, where the houses are thick,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I know how they make them of timber and brick.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I have seen how the mason and carpenter, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With trowel and hammer their labors pursue;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But not half so fine do their works all appear<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As doth the fair covering that’s everywhere here.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“How lovely this grass with the flowers so sweet!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor do I remember a house in the street<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So high as that tree where the little bird sings;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Did God, dearest mother, make all these fine things?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_163" id="page_163">{163}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“He did, my dear boy,” did his mother reply;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“Our Father in heaven, who dwells in the sky,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Made all these fine things,—the wide earth and seas,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The hills and the mountains, the rocks and the trees.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“This carpet of grass with its blossoms so fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The beasts of the wood and the fowls of the air,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All my dear boy has seen in sunshine or shade,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His heavenly Father in kindness has made.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And life, health, and strength he has given to thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And hearing, and eye-sight these beauties to see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">O, give him thine heart, then, in grief and in joy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He will love thee and make thee his own little boy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will guard thee in safety thro’ life, and will even<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Take thee with him to dwell in his beautiful heaven.”<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_164" id="page_164">{164}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 423px;"> -<a href="images/image164.jpg"> -<img src="images/image164.jpg" width="423" height="310" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_165" id="page_165">{165}</a></span></p> - -<h2>TIBBY AND HER KITTEN.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Kit</span> has not a sister,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor has she a brother;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And she is the darling<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of Tibby, her mother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She stands there and purrs<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With motherly pride,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">While dear little kitty<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is close by her side.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">T ’is pleasant to watch them—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Now they are at play,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With a round ball between them<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just rolling away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If puss could not play<br /></span> -<span class="i2">’Twould be a great pity;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis only one year<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since she was a kitty.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">How funny it seems,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That she is a mother;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Tis only one year<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since she and her brother<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Were found in the stable<br /></span> -<span class="i2">One warm summer day,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_166" id="page_166">{166}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where old Spot had hid them<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So snugly away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Such wee bits of kitties<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You never did see,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And one was for Willie<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And one was for me.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But one of those kitties<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Strayed off from his mother,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then my little Tibby<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had no more a brother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now she and old Spot<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Scarce notice each other,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For Tibby, though young,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is now a fond mother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">While grandmother Spot<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is roaming about<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Not one rat or mouse<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Will dare to come out.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And Tibby’s a mouser,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She’ll soon teach her kitty<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To chase them about<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Without any pity.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_167" id="page_167">{167}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Just look at her now,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With kit at her side,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And see how she watches<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With motherly pride<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her one little darling<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who has not a brother<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or sister to share<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The love of her mother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Our Father has taught them<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To care for each other;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He teaches our Tabby<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To be a fond mother.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He teaches our kitty<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To gambol and play,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And cares for them kindly<br /></span> -<span class="i2">By night and by day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Each creature that lives<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And moves on the earth,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Our dear heavenly Father<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Has kept from its birth.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And he loves to see them<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So joyous and gay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And makes them so happy<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They all love to play.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_168" id="page_168">{168}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I’m glad that they have<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such love for each other,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I’m glad that my kitty<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Does love her dear mother.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>HAPPY CAT.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">In</span> eighteen hundred and eighteen,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In pleasant time of Spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The pretty kitten first was seen,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whose history I sing.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And first her pedigree to tell,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She came, I understand,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of parents as respectable<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As any in the land.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Tib she was always called, for why?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It was her mother’s name,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And lively was the kitten’s eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And active was her frame.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The soft, warm coat that covered her,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was goodly to the sight,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For spots of grey and yellow fur<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Shone ’mid the milky white.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She quickly learned both rat and mouse<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To combat and surprise,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_169" id="page_169">{169}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">For these abounded in the house<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where first Tib oped her eyes.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One half the year she tarried here,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And then went to reside<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With Mrs. H., who lived quite near,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">(Her cat had lately died.)<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">There play’d she many a youthful trick,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which gain’d her great applause;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The rolling ball she’d follow quick,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And seize between her paws.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The floating feather she would chase,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And with a spring attain;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor buzzing fly could rest in peace<br /></span> -<span class="i2">About the window pane.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But one mischievous trick of puss<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I mention to her shame;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To see the mistress of the house<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A gentle lady came.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Tib saw the bonnet of the guest<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Most carefully laid down,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then quickly comes to take her rest<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Within the satin crown.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_170" id="page_170">{170}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Miss Tibby’s head, and tail, and ears,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Into this quiet station<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Are drawn, and not a hair appears<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To common observation.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At length the lady took her hat,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And how they all did stare<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And laugh to see a sleeping cat<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So snugly nestled there.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Six years rolled smoothly like the first,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From every evil free,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And many a kitten had she nurs’d<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The prettiest that could be.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">A most unusual sound one night<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was heard, and Tib thereby<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Was roused at once from slumbers light,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To hear a baby cry!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No sound like this had met her ears<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Within that ancient dome<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In all the many quiet years<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That this had been her home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Straight up the stairway did she spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And there beheld the elf,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A cunning, little, helpless thing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">No bigger than herself.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_171" id="page_171">{171}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Tib loved the baby from that day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And oft would rub her head<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Against him in a friendly way,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Or sit beside his bed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When puss was old, the baby Tom<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had grown a stately boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And since her feeble days had come,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He would his time employ<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">In nursing the poor, feeble cat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With bread and milk to feed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or give her meat, both lean and fat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">According to her need.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 331px;"> -<a href="images/image171.jpg"> -<img src="images/image171.jpg" width="331" height="190" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_172" id="page_172">{172}</a></span></p> - -<h2>TIBBY’S DEATH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">It</span> now becomes us to relate<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The time of Tibby’s death;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In eighteen hundred and twenty-eight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She drew her latest breath.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Old age and slow disease conspired<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This faithful cat to slay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And in the garden she expired,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">About the last of May.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her’s was a happy life indeed;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So quiet and secure,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From all the persecutions freed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That many cats endure.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Though duly fed with milk and bread,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">At morn and evening, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No man, or youth,—or child, in truth,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A better mouser knew.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The closet door oft stood ajar,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each shelf with viands crown’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet not the worse for honest puss<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Were e’er the dishes found.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If Tib, a cat, such praise could gain<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For honest, faithful deed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, how much more should those attain<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who think, and speak, and read.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_173" id="page_173">{173}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 282px;"> -<a href="images/image173.jpg"> -<img src="images/image173.jpg" width="282" height="475" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>SPRING</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">The</span> beautiful spring-time,—the beautiful spring,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Has come with its treasure of flowers<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_174" id="page_174">{174}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And dear robin red-breasts again come to sing<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In this beautiful garden of ours.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Spring, summer, and autumn, and winter, I know,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each in turn fill our hearts with great pleasure;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But spring, lovely spring-time, you certainly bring<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The greatest abundance of treasure.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>UP! UP! AWAY!</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">At</span> dawn of the day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When I’m wishing to sleep,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My dear little birdie<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This carol will keep,—<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Up! Up! Away!<br /></span> -<span class="i6">See! See! ’T is day!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At dawn of the day<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It is <i>so hard</i> to wake;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But I’ll listen and hear,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For my dear birdie’s sake;<br /></span> -<span class="i6">Up! Up! you’ll say,<br /></span> -<span class="i6">See! See! ’T is day!<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_175" id="page_175">{175}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>THE SABBATH BREAKER.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">One</span> pleasant morn, o’er hill and plain<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The sunbeams brightly fell,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And loudly o’er the steepled fane<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Rung out the Sabbath bell.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And they who loved the day of rest,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Went forth with one accord,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each in the way he deemed the best,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To wait upon the Lord.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But not with these, in lane or street<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was Henry seen that day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He had not learned to turn his feet<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To wisdom’s pleasant way.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But he God’s holy day would take<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With wicked boys to rove<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In search of walnut trees to shake<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Throughout the woody grove.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With basket o’er his shoulders thrown,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His garments soiled and torn,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Young Henry sauntered from the town<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This pleasant Sabbath morn.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His widowed mother, sick and poor,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had taught him better things;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_176" id="page_176">{176}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">And thus to see him leave her door,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her heart with sorrow wrings.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She tried God’s holy Book to heed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As it before her lay;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But while she sought the words to read,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Her thoughts were far away.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The sun his parting radiance shed,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each hour increased her care,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When stranger steps with heavy tread<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Came up her narrow stair.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And in their arms her son they bore,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Insensible and pale,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">While many a stain of crimson gore<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Revealed the hapless tale.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">He’d spent the day amid the wood<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In happiness and glee,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, just at eve, triumphant stood<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Upon a lofty tree.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The bough, the very topmost bough,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Beneath his weight gave way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And on the rocks quite senseless now<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The wretched sufferer lay.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With mangled flesh, and laboring breath,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And sadly fractured limb,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_177" id="page_177">{177}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">For many a week he lay till death<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A mercy seemed to him.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yet, ere its bonds the spirit burst,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Deep penitence was given;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And thus, for Jesus’ sake, we trust,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He found a home in heaven.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>MY SON, GIVE ME THINE HEART.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Time</span> is flying, dearest children,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come and give your hearts away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He will teach you how to pray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Time is flying—do not linger,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Listen to his voice to-day;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He will teach you how to pray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Time is flying—quickly flying,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Precious one do not delay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He delights to hear you pray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Time is flying <i>now</i>, dear children,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come and give your hearts away;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come to Jesus! Come to Jesus!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He will teach you how to pray.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_178" id="page_178">{178}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 337px;"> -<a href="images/image178.jpg"> -<img src="images/image178.jpg" width="337" height="422" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>VISIT TO THE COUNTRY.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">A</span> little boy one morning rose,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And from his chamber high,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Saw with delight the sun was bright<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And beautiful the sky.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For with his mother and his aunt,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That day full well he knew<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_179" id="page_179">{179}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Was planned for him a pleasant jaunt<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Across the waters blue.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And soon from head to foot complete<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The little boy was dressed;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But yet no breakfast could he eat,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So full of joy his breast.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Ere ten o’clock their trunks were packed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And all were in array,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor yet a piece of cake they lacked<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To eat upon the way.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, had you seen the pretty boat<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With mast and sail and oar,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In which the happy party float<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The peaceful billows o’er.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">By pebbly shore and island green,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where thick the bushes grew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Each little girl and boy, I ween,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had longed to be there too.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But soon they reached the island where<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their cousin kind had come<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With greeting fair to meet them there,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And take them to his home.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_180" id="page_180">{180}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His good brown horse drew wagon bright,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In which was room enough,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For better far than chaises light<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are these when roads are rough.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The good horse trotted with his load,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The whip he did not need,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And o’er the high and rugged road<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our travellers bore with speed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I cannot tell each charming sight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That on the dear boy’s view<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Arose to fill him with delight,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For all to him was new.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Here swam a flock of gabbling geese<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In waters bright and still,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor did the sheep the gambols cease<br /></span> -<span class="i2">About the verdant hill.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The cattle from their grassy meal<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Raised up a heavy eye,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And many a pig sent forth its squeal<br /></span> -<span class="i2">As rolled the wagon by.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now the house appear’d in view<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That they should tarry in,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then barking out the house-dog flew<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And out came all their kin.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_181" id="page_181">{181}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They kindly welcome gave each guest,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And full refreshment brought;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then evening came, and needful rest<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each weary traveller sought.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>LITTLE LYDIA AND THE RAZOR.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“This</span> box little Lydia may put in its place,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said her uncle, “for I am quite lame;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My razor is nicely shut up in its case,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Be careful, my dear, of the same.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But Lydia had seen this razor so bright<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In the hands of her uncle display’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when she was once fairly out of his sight,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She open’d the box, and saw with delight<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The beautiful handle and blade.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">She met her young sister; “Dear Abby,” she said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“This beautiful thing only see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Sit down here directly, and hold up your head,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I’ll shave you as nice as can be.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her sister consented, and now they begin<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their dangerous play with delight;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But, lo! the first stroke brings blood from her chin,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And both scream aloud with affright.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">At the sound of these voices their mother appear’d<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And well might such figures amaze her;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_182" id="page_182">{182}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">For one little girl was with blood all besmeared,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The other was holding a razor.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Now Abby was washed, and a plaster they bring<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For the cut on her face most befitting;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And Lydia was told what a terrible thing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She’d been on the point of committing.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They were warned for the future such playthings to shun,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And I trust they remember their warning;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For I’ve heard of no mischief these children have done,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Since that most unfortunate morning.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>NATURE SPEAKS OF GOD.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">How</span> beautiful this world, O Lord!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On every side thy hand I see;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The earth is with thy bounties stored,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All nature seems to speak of thee!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, teach a little child to know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And love that God who made them so!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Each fowl that swiftly wings the air,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And warbling birds on every tree,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All claim our heavenly Father’s care,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And they, too, seem to speak of thee.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, teach a little child to know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And love that God who made them so!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_183" id="page_183">{183}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The air, the ocean, and the land<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Are full of life as they can be,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And all from thy kind, bounteous hand<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Receive supplies of food from thee.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh, teach a little child to know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That glorious God who loves them so!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And thou, my Father, dost provide<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A happy home and friends for me;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My daily wants are all supplied,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And all proceeds alone from thee.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh teach a little child to know<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That glorious God who loves him so!<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 268px;"> -<a href="images/image183.jpg"> -<img src="images/image183.jpg" width="268" height="324" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_184" id="page_184">{184}</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 302px;"> -<a href="images/image184.jpg"> -<img src="images/image184.jpg" width="302" height="426" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<h2>BABY HAS GOT A TOOTH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Papa</span>, I have glorious news to tell!”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said a bright-eyed little boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As his father alighted from the stage,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And greeted his son with joy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_185" id="page_185">{185}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They had rattled away in the stage all day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Those passengers crowded together,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And some had to fret because it was wet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And all were quite tired of the weather.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But now shouts of laughter arose from the stage,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All lost their ill-humor in truth,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As they heard that dear boy tell the glorious news,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Our baby has just got a tooth!”<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 261px;"> -<a href="images/image185.jpg"> -<img src="images/image185.jpg" width="261" height="131" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Ocean steamers<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Come and go<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Very frequently,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You know.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Once it took<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A month, or more,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To cross the sea<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From shore to shore.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_186" id="page_186">{186}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 601px;"> -<a href="images/image186.jpg"> -<img src="images/image186.jpg" width="601" height="354" alt="[image unavailable.]" /></a> -<div class="caption"><p>BIBLE HOUSE (Astor Place).</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_187" id="page_187">{187}</a></span></p> - -<h2>BIBLE STORIES AND HYMNS.</h2> - -<h2>SOLOMON’S CHOICE.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Be</span> strong, and shew thyself a man!”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Said David to his youthful son.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“I die! keep thou the charge from God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And in his ways and precepts run!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So David slept—and Solomon<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Desired to do just what was right,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And God spoke to him in a dream,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“What shall I give thee? Ask to-night.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Oh, God,” he said, “Thou hast been kind<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To place me on king David’s throne;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yet, I am but a little child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I am not fit to go alone.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“An understanding heart I want,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To guard thine Israel, Lord, from sin—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This mighty people! Teach me, Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How to go out—how to come in.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Thy choice is good!” the Lord replied,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“An understanding heart I give;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No monarch yet has ever reigned<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So well. No king so wise shall live.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_188" id="page_188">{188}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">’</span>T is well that thou hast sought this thing,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And hast not asked long life and health,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Riches or honors,—yet I give<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To thee and thine abundant wealth!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Ask what thou wilt” in prayer, dear child;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God promises to give it thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And shouldst thou heavenly wisdom seek,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All other things shall added be.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SOLOMON’S JUDGMENT.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“And all Israel heard of the judgment, and they feared King -Solomon, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him."—<span class="smcap">Kings</span> -iii: 28.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">No</span> King e’er reigned like Solomon,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So good was he and wise;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When distant nations heard his fame,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">It filled them with surprise.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And all the people feared to do,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Unjust and wicked things;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They feared the secret he would learn<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From God the King of kings.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For they all knew at Gibeon,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God made the heart rejoice,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When in the silence of the night,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He made that happy choice.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_189" id="page_189">{189}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And asked an understanding heart,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The wisdom he should need<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To guide the people, and that God<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would be his friend indeed.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">They knew that God approv’d his choice,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And gave him such a name,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For wisdom and integrity,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That all would hear his fame.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One day a mother came to him,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To claim an only son,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An infant only nine days old,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And thus in tears begun:—<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“My lord, O king, behold and see,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This woman by my side!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She had a son the age of mine,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But in the night he died.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“No one was with us in the house,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So she was not afraid<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To place her dead child, while I slept,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where my dear boy was laid.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And when I woke, at early dawn,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To nurse my little son,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">I thought my darling dead, but soon<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I saw what she had done.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_190" id="page_190">{190}</a></span>”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“It is not so,” the woman cried,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“The dead boy let her bring,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That is her child, the living one<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Belongs to me, O king!”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Bring in a sword!” said Solomon,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“Now cut the child in two!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">We’ll give the other woman half,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">One half belongs to you.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Joyful the wicked woman spoke,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“But half the babe is thine;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">O righteous king divide the boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And let one half be mine.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her bowels yearning for her son,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The mother quick replied,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“No, take the living child for thine,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Give me the one that died.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“O king, in pity, spare my boy,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And let him not be slain!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thy handmaid then will hasten home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor trouble thee again.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“In nowise slay or hurt the babe,”<br /></span> -<span class="i2">King Solomon replied,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">“The <i>mother’s heart</i> shall plead for her,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Give her the living child!”<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_191" id="page_191">{191}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SOLOMON’S WISDOM.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the -east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt."—<span class="smcap">Kings</span> iv.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">In</span> Solomon’s most peaceful reign<br /></span> -<span class="i2">What happiness was felt!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Under his vine and fig tree, then,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each man in safety dwelt.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Israel and Judah lived secure,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In Canaan’s fruitful land,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And God enlarged the Monarch’s heart,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And made him understand<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">All wisdom Eastern sages learn’d,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And those of Egypt, too;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of trees of Lebanon he wrote,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All living plants he knew.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Of beasts,—of fowl,—of creeping things,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And fish the king could write,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And in his Songs and Proverbs still<br /></span> -<span class="i2">All nations take delight.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Silver, and gold, and precious stones,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Were sent him day by day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And camels laden with rich goods,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From regions far away.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_192" id="page_192">{192}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">So prosperous a reign as this,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God’s people ne’er had known,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And mighty kings oft came to see<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The monarch on his throne.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thus God had said,<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> “Since thou dost choose<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To walk in wisdom’s ways,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thou shalt be rich, and wise, and great,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Before me <i>all</i> thy days.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SOLOMON AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came -to prove him with hard questions. And she gave the king of gold and -of spices a very great store, and precious stones."—<span class="smcap">Kings</span> x.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Uttermost</span> parts of the earth<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Had heard the wondrous fame<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of Solomon’s most mighty acts,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The greatness of his name.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thence came the Queen of Sheba down<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With camels bearing gold,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And precious stones, and spices sweet,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Their worth has ne’er been told.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Arabian spices—such a store<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was never seen again<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_193" id="page_193">{193}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Within the Holy Land as then<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The queen brought in her train.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Communing with King Solomon<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of what was in her heart,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With questions hard she led the king<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His wisdom to impart.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Then said the queen, “In mine own land<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of thy great name I heard,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The wisdom and prosperity<br /></span> -<span class="i2">God had on thee conferred.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The fame of thy most mighty acts<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So filled me with surprise<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That I resolved to venture down<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And see with mine own eyes,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And bring a present from the East,—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Spices, and gems, and gold;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">O king! I heard a true report,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Yet half has ne’er been told.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Thrice happy are thy men, great king,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And these thy servants, too,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who wait before thee all the day,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And see what thou dost do.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_194" id="page_194">{194}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“And blessed be the Lord thy God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Who takes delight in thee;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Because the Lord loved Israel well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thy wisdom now they see.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Then of his royal bounty he<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Gave what the queen liked best,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And thus King Solomon dismissed<br /></span> -<span class="i2">His pleased and grateful guest.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>KING OF TYRE.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p class="c">“Hiram, King of Tyre, was ever a lover of David."—<span class="smcap">Kings</span> v.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">King</span> Solomon his servant sent<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To Hiram, King of Tyre,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To say, “thus saith King David’s son<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thy servant doth desire<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To build a temple for the Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And he would buy of thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Cedars of Lebanon, and firs,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To be sent down by sea.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And Hiram heard these words, and said,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“My servant shall convey<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All thou dost need from Lebanon;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Blessed be the Lord this day!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_195" id="page_195">{195}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“David, thy father, was my friend,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">I love thy people, too;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And I rejoice that God doth give<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Wisdom and grace to you.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Now, therefore, let us make a league<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of friendship and of peace;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All thou shalt need, I will supply,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Until the work shall cease.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thousands of men were thus employed,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sidonians, Tyrians, Jews,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To cut the timber and the stones,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For Solomon to use.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">No sound of hammer, axe, or tool,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Around God’s house was heard,—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All was prepared in Lebanon,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">According to his word.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The temple was magnificent,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Most wondrous to behold!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The ark and house were overlaid<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With pure and beaten gold.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And God was pleased, that Solomon<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Urged on the work with speed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He promised still to dwell with him,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And be his friend indeed.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_196" id="page_196">{196}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>CHRIST’S LOVE.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“Behold thy Son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! -And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home."—<span class="smcap">John</span> -xix.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Jesus</span>, my Lord, when here on earth,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Was always an obedient child,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Yielding his mother filial love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And ever humble, meek, and mild.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Loving his mother; Jesus sought<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A strict obedience to her will,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And when upon the cross he hung,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He loved his tender mother still;<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And left her to the watchful care<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of loving John, his dearest friend,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That in that dear disciple’s home,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">She her remaining days might spend.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">My mother, I would yield to thee,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The warm affection of my heart,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Nor ever false or wayward prove,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Or from thy precepts e’er depart.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Help me to serve my mother’s God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And bear his image on my heart!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then, when these scenes of earth are o’er,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">We’ll meet in heaven no more to part.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_197" id="page_197">{197}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2>ON FAITH.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">How</span> sweet it is my child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To live by simple faith,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Just to believe that God will do<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Exactly what he saith.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Does faith mean to believe<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That God will surely do<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Exactly what he says, Mamma,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just as I know that you<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Will give me what I ask,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Because you love me well,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And listen patiently, to hear<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whatever I may tell?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Yes; you may trust in God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Just as you trust in me;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Believe, dear child, he loves you well,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And will your father be.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">For, when you sought his love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your Father up in heaven,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Looked kindly down, for Jesus’ sake,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And has your sins forgiven.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And now, to pray in faith,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is simply to believe<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_198" id="page_198">{198}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">That what you ask in Jesus’ name,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">You surely shall receive.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Go with your simple wants,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And tell him all you need;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go put your trust in Christ alone,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such faith is sweet indeed.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>BE LIKE JESUS.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p class="c">“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">To</span> be like Jesus! O how sweet;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Living on earth as Jesus did—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never to speak one angry word,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But always do as one is bid.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To be like Jesus! he, dear child,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With God and man in favor grew,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never was known to tell a lie,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But always spoke just what was true.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To be like Jesus! When, O Lord,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thou givest a holy heart to me;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never shall I delight to sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But always try to be like thee.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To be like Jesus! pure in thought,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And word, and deed; O help me, Lord,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_199" id="page_199">{199}</a></span><br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never thy Spirit more to grieve,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But always love thy holy Word.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">To be like Jesus! O, how sweet!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When I go home to heaven above<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Never shall I forget thee more,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But always dwell with thee in love.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>SABBATH HYMN.</h2> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Little</span> traveller, Zionward<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Turn thy willing steps to-day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Haste thee to the house of God,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Lift thy youthful heart and pray.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">May this Sabbath be the best—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Happiest day of all the seven,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Day of sweet and sacred rest,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Emblem of the rest of heaven.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Little pilgrim, keep thy feet<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From the devious ways of sin;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Go, where Christians love to meet,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Go, where Jesus oft hath been.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Seek his presence and his love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On this holy Sabbath day,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Lift thy heart, and voice above,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In his temple praise and pray!<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_200" id="page_200">{200}</a></span><br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Little lamb, mayest thou be seen<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Far from dangerous paths to roam,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In thy shepherd’s pastures green—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">In his bosom find a home.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Never wander from his side;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Trust thy tender shepherd’s love;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He thy wayward steps will guide<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Safely to his fold above.<br /></span> -</div></div> -</div> - -<h2>FEED MY LAMBS.</h2> - -<div class="blockquot"><p>“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd—he shall gather the lambs -with his arm, and carry them in his bosom."—<span class="smcap">Isaiah</span> xl: 11.</p></div> - -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">“Forbid</span> them not,” the Savior says,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">“But suffer them to come,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For children in my arms of love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">There always has been room.”<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Those who would win the Savior’s love,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And be his friend indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Must not neglect the little ones—<br /></span> -<span class="i2">These dear lambs they must feed,<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And lead them to the quiet streams<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Where they may sweetly rest,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till the Good Shepherd calls them home<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And folds them to his breast.<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_201" id="page_201">{201}</a></span></div></div> -</div> - -<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS.</h2> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td class="pdd">Almira and Minnie,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_131">131</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Baby has got a tooth,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_184">184</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Baby’s first steps,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_28">28</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Be like Jesus,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_198">198</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Bible sold by weight,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_36">36</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Blackberry girl,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_145">145</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Breakfast fur the robins,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_149">149</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Charlie and his youthful teacher,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_109">109</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Christ’s love,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_196">196</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Close of the day,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_76">76</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Conversation upon ice,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_30">30</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Cooking in old times,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_73">73</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Create in me a clean heart, O God,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_96">96</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Cross girl,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_39">39</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Cross girl,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_65">65</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Dolly’s name,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_71">71</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Eddie in the country,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_34">34</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Ella and the roses,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_12">12</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Envy,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_118">118</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Faithful Fido,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_83">83</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Feed my lambs,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_200">200</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">God the Creator,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_162">162</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Grandmamma’s story,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_141">141</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Granite hills in winter,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_56">56</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Happy cat,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_168">168</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Happy Dolly,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_33">33</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Holiday gift,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_124">124</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Ida May,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_13">13</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Jane’s question,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_44">44</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">John Mason and his sled,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_47">47</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_202" id="page_202">{202}</a></span>King of Tyre,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_194">194</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Little Eddie,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_80">80</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Little Ellen’s request,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_158">158</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Little Lydia and the razor,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_181">181</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Little Mary and her wicked father,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_84">84</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Lost child,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_160">160</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Milking the Cows,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_159">159</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Minnie’s faithfulness,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_18">18</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Morning song and morning prayer,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_25">25</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Mother Goose,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_7">7</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">My son give me thine heart,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_177">177</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Nature speaks of God,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_182">182</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Nursery children needing homes,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_129">129</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Ocean steamers,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_185">185</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Oh spare the birds,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_38">38</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">On faith,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_197">197</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Papa’s request,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_43">43</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Playtime,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_27">27</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Precious Bible,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_103">103</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Pulsifer children,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_22">22</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Remember the poor,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_123">123</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_107">107</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Ride to school in winter,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_48">48</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Sabbath hymn,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_199">199</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Sallie M——,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_87">87</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Shun the swearer,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_59">59</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Skating,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_153">153</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Sleep, Dolly,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_10">10</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Sleep, little birdie,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_156">156</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Solomon and the Queen of Sheba,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_192">192</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Solomon’s choice,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_187">187</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Solomon’s judgment,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_188">188</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Solomon’s wisdom,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_191">191</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Spring,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_173">173</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Strawberry girl,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_115">115</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Succotash,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_74">74</a> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_203" id="page_203">{203}</a></span></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Supper for the robins,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_147">147</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The falls,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_60">60</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The first theft,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_68">68</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The Helen Maria,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_97">97</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The Indian and the basket,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_138">138</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The Indian and the planter,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_136">136</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The infant Savior,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_99">99</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The kind brother,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_53">53</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The Lake, Isles and White Mountains,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_58">58</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The little boy’s request,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_99">99</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The morning walk,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_114">114</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The peacock,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_17">17</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The proud girl,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_89">89</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The sabbath breaker,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_175">175</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The sacrifice,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_104">104</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The sailor and the monkeys,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_111">111</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The stolen pen-knife,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_63">63</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The tell-tale,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_60">60</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The two cousins,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_101">101</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The widow of Zarephath,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_150">150</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The wounded foot,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_156">156</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">The youthful king,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_97">97</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Tibby and her kitten,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_165">165</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Tibby’s death</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_172">172</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">To my infant nephew,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_154">154</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Trenton Falls,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_41">41</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Up! up! away!</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_174">174</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Visit to the country,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_178">178</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Wake, Dolly,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_11">11</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Willie’s fears. Part I,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_93">93</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Willie’s fears. Part II,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_94">94</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="pdd">Wonderful instinct of the ant,</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_78">78</a></td></tr> -</table> - -</div> -<div class="footnotes"><p class="cb">FOOTNOTES:</p> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Lovest thou me? Feed my lambs.—<span class="smcap">John</span> xxi.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Vol. iv. “Casket Library.” Published by H. V. Degen, 22 -Cornhill.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Vol. I. “Casket Library.” Published by H. V. Degen, 22 -Cornhill.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> John iii: 14, 15.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> “The seed of Abraham my friend."—<span class="smcap">Isaiah</span>, xli: 8.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Rev. xxii: 15.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> This circumstance actually occurred as related, soon after -the settlement of Rhode Island, at a farm house, still in good -preservation.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Kings, 2d chapter.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Kings iii: 12.</p></div> - -</div> -<hr class="full" /> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WEE WEE SONGS FOR OUR LITTLE PETS ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<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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