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THE

WREATHS

COLLECTION OF POEMS,

FROM

CELEBRATED ENGLISH AUTHORS.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY W. B. GILLEY AND H. I. MEGAREY.

J. Seymour, printer.

A

1886, June 25,

Gift of

Henry G. Denny,

of Boston.

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"Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb."

THE MINSTREL.-Beattie,

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"Whilst some affect the sun, and some the shade." ELEGY, On the Death of Lady Coventry.-Mason, 80 "The mid-night clock has toll'd-and, hark, the bell." HYMN, from Psalm 148.-Ogilvie,

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"Begin, my soul, the exalted lay."

THE FIRE-SIDE.-Cotton,

"Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd."

DEATH.-Dr. Porteus,

"Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes."

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"When Music, heavenly maid, was young.'

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THE PASSIONS.-Collins,

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"Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care."!

ON SLAVERY.-Cowper,

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"But, ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer."

HYMN ON SOLITUDE.-Thompson,

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"Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude."

HYMN TO DARKNESS.-Yalden,

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"Darkness, thou first great parent of us all."

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ELEGY, written in a CountryChurch-yard. Gray, 127 "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

ODE TO LEVEN WATER.-Smollet,

"On Leven's Banks, while free to rove."

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BEAM OF TRANQUILLITY.-Moore,

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"A beam of tranquillity smil'd in the West."

A CANADIAN BOAT SONG.-Moore,

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"Faintly as tolls the evening chime."

MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN.-Burns,

"When chill November's surly blast." O'CONNOR'S CHILD, or the Flower of love lies bleeding.-Campbell,

"Oh! once the Harp of Innisfail."

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM,-Campbell.

"Our bugles sang truce-for the night cloud had low'r'd." THE DYING NEGRO.-Day,

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"Arm'd with thy sad last gift-the power to die."

HYMN ON THE SEASONS.-Thomson,

"These, as they change, Almighty Father!"

THE HERMIT.-Parnell,

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"Far in a wild, unknown to public view."

THE TRAVELLER, or a Prospect of Society.—

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"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow."

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"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still."

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"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances."

THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.-Thomson,

"O mortal man, who livest here by toil."

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