Lines addressed to the Children of a Day-School, &c. -

To a Lady under bereavement

To the Memory of Miss Casamaijor

On a dear Sister's refusing to resume her Music, &c.

Memory of departed Friends

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Lines addressed to the Teacher of a Bible-class

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INTRODUCTORY STANZAS.

INSCRIBED TO THE FRIEND AT WHOSE KIND SUGGESTION THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS PUBLISHED.

WITH other feelings now than those in youth,

O Poesy, I long have touch'd thy lyre; Gay fancy then could charm me more than truth, And with false rapture all my bosom fire. Long, deeply chasten'd, has mine aim been higher

Than Fancy's loftiest flight could e'er attainTo raise to Heav'n what Heav'n would now inspire. And should one heart rise heavenwards by the

strain,

Then should I deem the chords had not been swept in vain.

But I

may not pursue

such hallow'd lays;

For now a path obscure and quiet leads
Far from the muse's haunts and classic ways,
To where a little flock secluded feeds
By the still waters and the fragrant meads

Of pastoral life;-here duty claims my hours;
Yet when, as now, the voice of friendship pleads,
Awhile I may retrace those fav'rite bowers,
And at her bidding cull their few remaining

flowers.

October, 1852.

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