Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People

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Title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
Author: Eliza Lee Follen
Release Date: September 13, 2005 [EBook #16688]
Language: English
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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.
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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 Honest Bird 73
Soliloquy of Ellen's Squirrel 76
The Pin, Needle, and Scissors 77
Learned Fred 83
Little Roland 84
Billy Rabbit to Mary 91
The Old and New Shoes 93
The Monkeys and the Bears 97
HYMNS.
"SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME."
"Let little children come to me,"--?This is what the Saviour said;?Little children, come and see?Where these gracious words are read.
Often on these pages look,--?Of the love of God they tell;?'Tis indeed a holy book,--?Learn to read and love it well.
Thus you hear the Saviour speak,--?"Come ye all