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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 283
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Life Triumphant. A Poem. By Elizabeth An...
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Winter Weavings. Poems By Isabella Law. ...
" Didst thou dream how men would crown thee , Praise thee with a liberal meed ,
And some hearts in silence own thee , "Who had touched their truest need ? " How the many would approve thee
In a loud and friendly strife ; And how some would bless and love thee As the angel of their life ?
" Didst thou hear the songs of gladness Thou wouldst waken by and by ; Where hushed notes of weary sadness
Lay half folded in a sigh ? " Dost thou dream how sweet a story
Shall be told of thee one day , In the future life before thee ,
When thy voice is hushed away ? " Hushed away from morn and even , all too sad
In a silence : Earth is yet too far from heaven That the sky be always glad .
" Yet I knew that like a river With an ever ceaseless flow , Still shall echo on for ever
Words that blessed us long ago . " So while wise men praise , approve thee ;
I will Weave bless bri , and ght thank honours , and for love . thy art thee , In the silence of my heart . "
Notices Of Books. 283
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 283
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/67/
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