CONTENTS.

SCENES AND HYMNS OF LIFE.

The English Martyrs

Flowers and Music in a Room of Sickness

The Traveller's Evening Song

Burial of an Emigrant's Child in the Forests

Easter-Day in a Mountain Church-Yard

The Child Reading the Bible

A Poet's Dying Hymn

The Funeral Day of Sir Walter Scott

The Prayer in the Wilderness

Prisoners' Evening Service

Hymn of the Vaudois Mountaineers in Times of Perse-

cution

The Indian's Revenge

Prayer at Sea after Victory

Evening Song of the Weary

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Mother's Litany by the Sick-Bed of a Child

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IX. The Penitent Anointing Christ's Feet

X. Mary at the Feet of Christ

XI. The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of

THE ENGLISH MARTYRS.

A SCENE OF THE DAYS OF QUEEN MARY.

Thy face

Is all at once spread over with a calm

More beautiful than sleep, or mirth, or joy!

I am no more disconsolate.

Scene in a Prison.

EDITH alone.

WILSON.

Edith. Morn once again! Morn in the lone dim cell,

The cavern of the prisoner's fever dream,

And morn on all the green rejoicing hills,

And the bright waters round the prisoner's home,

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