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by Eliza Lee Follen

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Title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People

Author: Eliza Lee Follen

Release Date: September 13, 2005 [EBook #16688]

Language: English

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HYMNS, SONGS, AND FABLES,
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

BY

ELIZA LEE FOLLEN.

REVISED AND ENLARGED FROM THE LAST EDITION.

BOSTON:
WM. CROSBY AND H.P. NICHOLS,
118 WASHINGTON STREET.

1851.

[Illustration]

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by WM. CROSBY
AND H.P. NICHOLS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
METCALF AND COMPANY,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

BY CHARLES FOLLEN.

This little book is dedicated to parents and children. Most of the
poems were written with no other hope, than that they would instruct
or please some child. The pleasure they have given in a limited circle
has tempted the writer to print them. Some have never before appeared
in public, but most of them have been already published in different
works; some few, without the author's knowledge.

It will be found that these poems are intended for children of
different ages and characters. It may be objected to the book, that
gay and serious pieces are bound up together; but so it is in human
life and human nature, and it is essential to the healthful action of
a child's mind that it should be so. The smile that overtakes its
tears is as necessary to the child as the sun after a spring shower
is to the young plant; and without it a blight will fall upon the
opening blossom.

The natural love that all have for their literary offspring, perhaps,
first induced the author to bring the stray little family together.
This motive was strengthened by the hope that children might love the
book, a