Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . he Graphic Muse, All is Action, All is Motion, Fame, .... The Indian Maiden, The Voice of Nature, Hidden Treasures, The Old Pine Tree with Branches The Tower of Strength, To a Butterfly, Religion, .... TnviE, ..... Nothing Good shall Ever Perish, Prayer of the Lost One, My Newspaper, . Bare 5293236884144464951565760616469717275788082848688919397 iv CONTENTS. Paoe. Old Cronest, ........ 100 Who is Humble ? Who is Lowlv ? . . . 102 The Fatal Prediction, . . •. • . 104 The Yankee Girls, ....... 108 The Genius of Liberty, ....... 110 Twin Graves, ..


Affection's gift, for the loving and the loved . he Graphic Muse, All is Action, All is Motion, Fame, .... The Indian Maiden, The Voice of Nature, Hidden Treasures, The Old Pine Tree with Branches The Tower of Strength, To a Butterfly, Religion, .... TnviE, ..... Nothing Good shall Ever Perish, Prayer of the Lost One, My Newspaper, . Bare 5293236884144464951565760616469717275788082848688919397 iv CONTENTS. Paoe. Old Cronest, ........ 100 Who is Humble ? Who is Lowlv ? . . . 102 The Fatal Prediction, . . •. • . 104 The Yankee Girls, ....... 108 The Genius of Liberty, ....... 110 Twin Graves, ....... 113 The Point of Doctrine : or, Love and Logic, . . 114 Helen : or, the Forest Queen, ..... 119 To THE American Muse, ....... 121 To A Lady on presenting her a bunch of withered flowers, 124 Oh No! Theyre Not Sleeping, . , . 126 Oh Come to My Home in the West, .... 128 Bravely Do and Boldly Dare, ...... 130 Hans Van Ryn, .....;. 132 The Infants Grave, ...... 136 The Alchymist, . . ... . 137 THE DEMON PICTURE HAD a dream, a fearfuldream!A fearful dieam lastniglit!A dream that I well mayfear to tell;Lest I should the timid thought that I stood in a vaulted hall,And saw what the stoutest heart would appall;But strength that I had not, was given to me,To look on the things I was fated to in earths bosom the cavern-hall lay,Where sunheam was never yet known to stray;The hall, though gloomy, was lofty and the walls I noted on every side. 6 THE DEMON PICTURE GALLERY. Were painted witli many a strange device,And pictures of misery, crime, and vice. A group of demons there stood in the hall!I counted the demons, just seven in all;And nothing there liveth on earth or in sea,Compared with the look of these demons may lamp or fire, in the hall there was none;Twas lit by the eyes of the demons alone.!—Which constantly burnd with a phosphoric glow,Serving dimly, the walls of their cavern to show;Whilst over their features, so ghastly,


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