POEMS

5123

BY

JOHN G. WHITTIER

ILLUSTRATED BY H. BILLINGS.

"WAS IT RIGHT,

While my unnumbered brethren toiled and bled,
That I should dream away th' entrusted hours

On rose leaf beds, pampering the coward heart
With feelings all too delicate for use?”

S. T. COLERIDGE,

BOSTON:

BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY & CO.

1850.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,

BY B. B. MUSSEY & CO.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY 8. N. DICKINSON. BOSTON