ELIZA LEE FOLLEN.

REVISED AND ENLARGED FROM THE LAST EDITION.

BOSTON: WM. CROSBY AND H.P. NICHOLS, 118 WASHINGTON STREET.

1851.

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.

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION HYMNS. "Suffer little children to come unto me" Hymn Hymn for a Little Boy "The Lord is my Strength" Hymn "Thy Will be done" Sabbath Day The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed God is good Evening Robinson Crusoe's Hymn Hymn On Prayer "The Spirit giveth Life" We never part from Thee "I will arise and go to my Father" Evening Hymn Autumn The Lord's Day The Ministry of Pain "By Faith ye are saved" Evening Prayer Evening Hymn Lines written at Midnight "Hope in God" Failure and Success SONGS. The Little Spring The Little Boy's May-day Song Guess what I have heard Spring The Little Boy's Good-night The Shepherd's Sabbath-song To Spring Her Voyage is at an End Charley and his Father. A Ballad Remember the Slave Home-sickness Happiness Children in Slavery To Good Resolutions Thanks for a Pleasant Day To a Butterfly To Nature On the Death of a Young Companion The Sabbath is here The Child at her Mother's Grave Child's Song To a Fountain Song for an Infant School The Summer To a Beautiful Girl The Little Slave's Wish FABLES.

The Honest Bird Soliloquy of Ellen's Squirrel The Pin, Needle, and Scissors Learned Fred Little Roland Billy Rabbit to Mary The Old and New Shoes The Monkeys and the Bears

PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE

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.

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.

HYMNS.

"SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME."

HYMN.

HYMN FOR A LITTLE BOY.

"THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH."

HYMN.

"THY WILL BE DONE."

SABBATH DAY.

THE GOOD BOY'S HYMN ON GOING TO BED.

GOD IS GOOD.

EVENING.

ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HYMN.

HYMN.

ON PRAYER.

"THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE."

WE NEVER PART FROM THEE.

"I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER."

EVENING HYMN.

AUTUMN.

THE LORD'S DAY.

THE MINISTRY OF PAIN.

"BY FAITH YE ARE SAVED."

EVENING PRAYER.

EVENING HYMN.

LINES WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF A.G. EBERHARD.

"HOPE IN GOD."

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF S.A. MAHLMAN.

FAILURE AND SUCCESS.

SONGS.

THE LITTLE SPRING.

THE LITTLE BOY'S MAY-DAY SONG.

GUESS WHAT I HAVE HEARD.

SPRING.

THE LITTLE BOY'S GOOD-NIGHT.

THE SHEPHERD'S SABBATH-SONG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.

TO SPRING.

HER VOYAGE IS AT AN END.

Cohasset Shore, July, 1831.

CHARLEY AND HIS FATHER.

A BALLAD.

REMEMBER THE SLAVE.

HOME-SICKNESS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

HAPPINESS.

CHILDREN IN SLAVERY.

TO GOOD RESOLUTIONS.

THANKS FOR A PLEASANT DAY.

TO A BUTTERFLY.

[Those who are acquainted with this little poem, translated from Herder, will perceive that a slight liberty has been taken with the last two lines.]

TO NATURE.

FROM THE GERMAN OF FREDERICK LEOPOLD, COUNT OF STALBERG.

ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG COMPANION.

THE SABBATH IS HERE.

FROM KRUMACHER.

THE CHILD AT HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

CHILD'S SONG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

TO A FOUNTAIN.

FROM THE GERMAN OF RAMLER.

SONG FOR AN INFANT SCHOOL.

THE SUMMER.

A FREE TRANSLATION OF A GERMAN POPULAR SONG.

TO A BEAUTIFUL GIRL.

THE LITTLE SLAVE'S WISH.

FABLES.

THE HONEST BIRD.

SOLILOQUY

OF ELLEN'S SQUIRREL, ON RECEIVING HIS LIBERTY;—OVERHEARD BY A LOVER OF NATURE AND A FRIEND OF ELLEN.

THE PIN, NEEDLE, AND SCISSORS.

LEARNED FRED.

FROM THE GERMAN.

LITTLE ROLAND.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND.

BILLY RABBIT TO MARY.

[Billy Rabbit was a little rabbit which a boy caught in the woods, and gave to a little girl of the name of Mary. She was very attentive to the little prisoner, gave him an abundance of good things to eat, and tried her best to make him happy; but all in vain. After many attempts, he at last succeeded in making his escape, and instantly disappeared in the woods. In the course of the day, the following letter, sealed with a sharp thorn, was received by his friend Mary.]

Billy.

THE OLD AND NEW SHOES.

THE MONKEYS AND THE BEARS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GELLART.

THE END.

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A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, with Extracts from his Correspondence and Manuscripts. Edited by his nephew, Wm. Henry Channing. Comprised in three volumes, of from 450 to 500 pages each, uniform with the best edition of the Works. Two very superior portraits of Dr. Channing appear in the volumes; one from a painting by Allston, the other by Gambadella. Price $3.00.

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SERMONS ON CHRISTIAN COMMUNION. Designed to promote the Culture of the Religious Affections. Edited by Rev. T.R. Sullivan. 12mo. pp. 403. Price, $1.00.

This work is not confined to the subject of the Lord's Supper, but "forms a series of practical discourses of the persuasive kind, relating to repentance, or the duty of commencing the Christian course,—to edification, or the encouragements to progressive Christian improvement,—and to the eucharistic service, as affording exercise for all the grateful and devout affections of the heart in every stage of its subjection to Christian discipline."—Preface.

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THOUGHTS ON MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE. By Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Second Edition, revised. 16mo. pp. 302. Price, 62-1/2 cents.

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