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Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People By: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860) |
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BY ELIZA LEE FOLLEN. REVISED AND ENLARGED FROM THE LAST EDITION. BOSTON:
WM. CROSBY AND H.P. NICHOLS,
118 WASHINGTON STREET. 1851. [Illustration] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by WM. CROSBY
AND H.P. NICHOLS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
METCALF AND COMPANY,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. BY CHARLES FOLLEN.
This little book is dedicated to parents and children. Most of the
poems were written with no other hope, than that they would instruct
or please some child. The pleasure they have given in a limited circle
has tempted the writer to print them. Some have never before appeared
in public, but most of them have been already published in different
works; some few, without the author's knowledge. It will be found that these poems are intended for children of
different ages and characters. It may be objected to the book, that
gay and serious pieces are bound up together; but so it is in human
life and human nature, and it is essential to the healthful action of
a child's mind that it should be so. The smile that overtakes its
tears is as necessary to the child as the sun after a spring shower
is to the young plant; and without it a blight will fall upon the
opening blossom. The natural love that all have for their literary offspring, perhaps,
first induced the author to bring the stray little family together.
This motive was strengthened by the hope that children might love the
book, and that she might have the pleasure of seeing it among their
treasures, with the corners of the leaves well worn by their little
fingers, and perhaps sometimes placed upon the pillow where "angels
hover round." This success, which must secure to her also the approbation of
parents, she does aspire after, and most earnestly desire; this, and
this alone, will satisfy her; without this, she would be the first to
pronounce it an unworthy offering. CAMBRIDGE, May 19, 1831.
PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
The present edition of Hymns, Songs, and Fables, has been greatly
enlarged, by poems either not before printed, or that have had a very
limited circulation, and also by a number of translations from the
German. If they should have the good fortune to add to the innocent
pleasure of the young, and deserve to become associated in their minds
with the pure and hallowed recollections of home, and happy early
days, my highest ambition with regard to them be entirely gratified. ELIZA LEE FOLLEN. CAMBRIDGE, November 19, 1846.
CONTENTS.
HYMNS. PAGE "Suffer little children to come unto me" 1 Hymn 2 Hymn for a Little Boy 3 "The Lord is my Strength" 5 Hymn 6 "Thy Will be done" 7 Sabbath Day 8 The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed 10 God is good 11 Evening 12 Robinson Crusoe's Hymn 13 Hymn 14 On Prayer 16 "The Spirit giveth Life" 17 We never part from Thee 19 "I will arise and go to my Father" 20 Evening Hymn 22 Autumn 23 The Lord's Day 24 The Ministry of Pain 25 "By Faith ye are saved" 26 Evening Prayer 27 Evening Hymn 28 Lines written at Midnight 29 "Hope in God" 31 Failure and Success 32
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