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CONTENTS.

THE pieces marked with an asterisk* in the table of contents have
never before been published in England.

The pieces marked thus fare from American authors.
The pieces marked thus i are added by the American Editor.

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*Micah Hint

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Resignation, Prayer,

A Fragment found in a Skeleton Case, Peace of Mind,

The Missionary,

t‡A Home everywhere,

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Chatterton. 55 Montgomery. 57 Anonymous. 58 59

· Henry Moore. Montgomery. 60

S. Graham. 63

The dying blind Boy to his Mother, London " World." 66

The Voice and Temple of Nature,

‡Love,

The Orphan's Hymn,

J. Brandon. 68

Southey. 69

From the Jubilee Herald. 70

*"O that I had Wings like a Dove," Autumn,

"Ye are the Salt of the Earth," Psalm ciii.,

Prayer for Resignation,

Psalm xlvi.,

Psalm xxiii.,

The Star of Bethlehem,

The Power of God,

Ode to Disappointment,

T. T. 71

Southey. 72

Mrs. Barbauld. 74

Montgomery. 76
Burns. 77

Montgomery. 78
Addison. 79

H. K. White. 80

On hearing the clock strike twelve at night, 31st

December,

The World and the Gospel,

Paternal Care of the Deity,

Sonnet on the author's Blindness,

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j. w. Cunningham. 85

The Christian in the prospect of Death,
Blessed be thy name for ever,

The Heavenly Minstrel,

Comfort under Affliction,

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Id. 86 Milton. 87

Cowper. 87

James Hogg. 88

Edmeston. 89

C. Grant.

Miss O'Connell.

90

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Morning Meditations,

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The fall of the Leaf, from the Russian of

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Translated by J. Bowring. 103

"He shall fly away as a dream,"

The Harp of Judah,

"We wept when we remembered Zion,"

Sunday Morning, .

Sunday Evening,

+God our Father, .

Providence,

Death of a Believer,

The World we have not seen,

The Better Land,

Montgomery. 105
Anonymous. 107
L. E. 107
Byron. 109

Cunningham. 109
Edmeston. 110

Mrs. Gilman. 112

Cowper. 112 He. 113 Anonymous. 114 Mrs. Hemans. 116 Logan. 117 Bryant. 119 Noel. 121 J. Bowring. 122

The Grave to the Believer a place of Rest,

†The Old Man's Funeral, . Midnight Meditation,

Sunday Evening,

The Evening Cloud,
†The Star of Bethlehem, .
The Young Herdsman,
The Parting Spirit,

The silent Expression of Nature,
Life and Death,

J. Wilson. 123 J. G. Percival. 124 Wordsworth. 126

Edmeston. 128 Anonymous. 129

New Monthly Magazine. 131

Song of Saul before his last Battle,
Destruction of Sennacherib,

The Haven, Russian Poetry, translated
by

Grave of a Christian,.

The Hermit,.

Hymn to the Stars,

Address to the Stars,

Byron. 132
Id. 133

J. Bowring. 134

. Edmeston. 135

Beattie. 137

Moore. 139

Monthly Repository. 139
Ogilvie. 141

New Monthly Magazine. 144

The Millennium,

Hymn from Psalm cxlviii.,

Destruction of Jerusalem, .

"That ye through his poverty might be rich,"

†Song of the Stars,

Moore. 145 Bryant. 147

Death of a Christian,

W. Russell. 149

Heber. 150

The Thunder-Storm, translated from the Russian of

Dmitriev,

The Summit of Mount Sinai,

Eternal Union of Friends,

by J. Bowring. 151 Montgomery. 152 Byron. 153

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On the Death of a Christian Friend, Lines addressed to a Ring-Dove, "Thou hast made Summer and ter,"

Hymn,

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Upon the Death of a Young Lady, The Family in Heaven and Earth, Missionary Hymn,

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Page. Byron. 154 Montgomery. 155 Bryant. 157 Caroline Fry. 161

Moore. 163 Peabody. 164

H. K. White. 166 J. Bowring. 166 Milton. 167

E. M. 168

H. M. Williams. 169 S. Wesley. 170 Grahame. 171 Edmeston. 172 Heber. 173

Hindoo Hymn-to Naravena, translated

by

The Twins,

T. Campbell. 174 Gisborn. 176

Mason. 177 Dryden. 178

Anonymous. 180

C. Edwards. 182

Sir William Jones. 183

From a London Newspaper. 185

The Christian Mourner's Prospect of Death, Anon. 186

Heaven,

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The Rose,

The Setting Sun,

"Thy Will be done,"

* God is good,"

The Garden of Gethsemane,

The Jubilee-Levit. xxv. 8-13, *All things to be changed,

tt" They went out into the Mount of

Olives,"

†The Death of the Flowers,

Epitaph of Aileen Artore,

Anonymous. 187
Moore. 188
Anonymous. 189

J. G. Percival. 190

Pope. 191 Watts. 192 Anonymous. 193

E. T. 193

Mrs. Follen. 195

Pierpont. 196
Grahame. 197

. Mrs. Follen. 198

Pierpont. 199 Bryant. 200 Anonymous. 202

Dirge for Rachel

Hymn of Rebecca the Jewess, +Funeral Hymn,

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Anonymous. 203 W. Scott. 204

Mallet. 205

Lines supposed to be written by A. Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernan

dez,

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Address to the Deity,

The Village Church,

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Cowper. 207

Emily Taylor. 209 Cunningham. 212

"Is there a God?"-Answered, Lon. Old Mon. Mag. 213

The Bible,

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Emily Taylor. 215 E. T. 216

The God of the Storm and the Whirlwind,

Peace,.

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The Death of the Virtuous,

Love to Christ,

George Herbert. 216 Mrs. Barbauld. 218 E. T. 219

Oriental Illustration of a Christian Precept,

Upon the Death of a Wife,

Silent Worship,

+Heaven,

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The World Delusive,

Herbert Knowles. 220 Lord Palmerston. 221 J. J. Gurney. 222 Atheneum, 223

Blackwood's Magazine. 224

To Laura-Two Years of age, Morning and Evening contrasted,. Matthew vii. 26, 27, Imitation from the Persian, Lines written in a Mad-House, . Flowers,.

Ten Years Ago,

Adam and Eve's Alternate Hymn, the Dutch of Vondel, Praise and Gratitude on Jehovah's There is a Tongue in every Leaf, The Genius of Death,

Burns. 226

Knox. 227 Edmeston. 228 Conder. 229 Jd. 231

H. R. 231 Knox. 233 Id. 234 Id. 235 T. Moore. 236

N. P. Willis. 236 Anonymous. 238 Anonymous. 241 Southey. 242 C. Smart. 242 Bernard Barton. 243 Anonymous. 249

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