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Title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
Author: Eliza Lee Follen
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HYMNS, SONGS, AND FABLES,
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
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
SONGS.
The Little Spring 35

The Little Boy's May-day Song 36
Guess what I have heard 38
Spring 39
The Little Boy's Good-night 40
The Shepherd's Sabbath-song 41
To Spring 42
Her Voyage is at an End 44
Charley and his Father. A Ballad 47
Remember the Slave 50
Home-sickness 52
Happiness 53
Children in Slavery 54
To Good Resolutions 55
Thanks for a Pleasant Day 56
To a Butterfly 57
To Nature 58
On the Death of a Young Companion 59
The Sabbath is here 60
The Child at her Mother's Grave 62
Child's Song 63

To a Fountain 64
Song for an Infant School 64
The Summer 66
To a Beautiful Girl 68
The Little Slave's Wish 69
FABLES.
The