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    5 . to * And tell our white-haired father * That in the paths tie irod ,

    The child he lov'd , the la § t on earth , Yet walks , and worships God : Say that his last fond blessing- yet Rests on my soul'like dew ; And by its hallowing might * I trust , Again his face to view .

    6 . * And tell our gentle mother , That on her grave I pour The sorrows of my spirit forth , As on her breast of yore . Happy thou art , that soon , how soon t Our good and bright wilt see : Oh brother , brother , may I dwell Ere long with thern and thee !'

    This is one example , of a thousand which the works of this gifted woman will afford ^ of the power she possesses of seeing the poetry of human life where others see but the prose—of hearing music (« the still sad music of humanity' ) where others hear but monotony or discord . The heart is her province—the pure heart - —warm with gentte sympathies and with noble affections . Passion only vivifies her finer susceptibilities , as the heat of the sun increases the fall of the dew . On her favourite themes she will

    sing dofrn a summer day ; and who would wish to stop so sweet a song ? Of human kindred , and of its ties and tendernesses , she is the very * Buibul of a thousand songs . * She is the ' sweet singer' of home , of its joys and sympathies , its recollections and its duties , itfc hopes and fears , its cares and sorrows . We hear a voicd j ' List * list , oh list V It is a < Child' singing its * First Grief : '—

    1 . * " Oh , call my brother back to me , I cannot pl&y alone ; The summer comes with flower and bee—Where is my brother gone ?

    2 . * The butterfly is glancing bright Across the Sunbeam ' s track ; I care not now % a chase its flight , — - Oh , call my brother back !

    * The . fldtfrefs ruin tirOd—the flowers we sow'd Arbtind 'dill garddti iiee I Our Vliife te dWdpitaff ^ lth its load ., Oh , caff hittl ttecS id kn !*•

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/27/