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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 281
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Winter Weavings. Poems By Isabella Law. ...
They have a general likeness to the famous Legends and L " yrics dedicate " of d Miss in all Procter affection ; . to " whom But they " Winter lack the Weavings fine vigorous " are
touchlike that of the finger upon a fine-stringed instrument , which , causes what Miss Procter writes to cling to the ear and
sympathies memory . 3 Nevertheless and may well , they be will satisfied affect with many a of comparative the same admirationbest do to
first the portion book of which of by the selecting gains public additional several pathos of . the We from poem can the s for fact extract that justice to ; the the
writer blessing , possessed of outward of vision so much has been delicate denied sp from iritual childhood , insight , . the
" LIGHT AT EVENING TIME . " She From is sitting all the close rest to apart the ; window ,
But She her is eyes looking are into not looking her heart outward . , " She A is story reading of joy a life and -told tears story , ,
Of In laug the hte sacred r and past sighin of g years blended , " But The Away she light reads into of the evening b day the stead is tide fading ; burning
Of a bright lamp y at her y side . " It shines on the well-worn pages
With a constant faithful glow ; For Is the the oil hoarding that is of feeding long it ago ever . ,
" Glad Are voices filling and the laug room hter with round sound her ; . But For she her is sense not heedin is inward g the bound outward . ,
" And She so sits by from the open the rest window apart , ; But She her is eyes looking are into not lookin her heart g outward . ,
" The And shadows darker grow the evening longer , deeper tide ; ; But Of she that reads brig by ht lamp the stead at her y burnin side . g
u As burn she s with reads a on fuller more radiance and m , ore ;
And Some gilds lines with th a at golden were d g ark lory b , efore .
" May When its faithful the shadows rays be of near night her shall , come ;
Till In she the treads dawn on of the a bri golden ghter home threshold . " ,
VOL . XII . TJ
Notices Of Books. 281
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 281
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/65/
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