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Song Collection:

TWO HUNDRED
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Havorite Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes,

Nursery and Hireside.

No. 8.

SELECTED BY J. P. MCCASKEY.

When she passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.-Longfellow.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life.-Auerbach.

If I can put some touches of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, be it by kindly
word or act, by sentiment or by song, then I feel that I have walked with God.

Music softens and subdues the rebellious disposition; it refines and soothes the wayward
and turbulent passions; it nerves the heart to deeds of valor and heroism; it gives joy and
consolation in the hour of affliction and carries the soul captive across the rough and stormy
sea of life, and stands beyond the vale of Time to welcome with angelic voice the wandering
spirit to its final home.-John Hall.

NEW YORK.

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1892

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELT
1918

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My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
Yet ere we part one lesson I can leave you
For every day.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.

"A Farewell."

Charles Kingsley.

Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is
equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the
same time, he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue
while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their
spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of
endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous. A spirit all sun-
shine is graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.-Thomas Carlyle.

Our thanks are due to Publishers for copyright favors, and to Prof. CARL MATZ for invaluable
aid here gratefully acknowledged. The compiler may be addressed through Messrs. Harper &
Brothers, in reference to Old Songs that have been popular favorites, and will be glad to have sug-
gestions from any persons who are interested. Some of the best selections in the various Num-
bers have been suggested by lovers of song in different parts of the country, often widely separated.
The full list of contents of the several Numbers may be had on application to the Publishers.

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY J. P. MCCASKEY.