Hymns for mothers and children

C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild, Anne E. Guild

Description

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Sujets

• Mothers
• Children's poetry

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

Extrait

>;-V,/,\y; WALKER, WISE, AND COMPANY, 245 Washington Street. 1861. N:EW YORKTHE LIBPARYPUBLIC 486657A ANDASTO«, LENO;t FOUi>JOaT10IS3TILDEN L-193QR Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by WALKER, WISE, AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cnmbridpe : Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. PREFACE. Since the publication of the Hymns of the Ages, its com- pilers have frequently been urged to prepare a volume of like character for children. One of them has accordingly given the leisure of several years to the present work; her plan being, to collect devout, —entertaining, and suggestive poetry, morning and evening hymns, and those calculated to stimulate the imagination, re- fine the taste, and train the child's heart to become strong, humane, and brave, as well as keep it gentle, reverent, and pure. Finding lack of material, she offers the volume nowa sad with least its deficiencies may drawdiffidence, hoping that at " little ones,"some true poet's- attention to the wants of these coarse dilutionsthat they may no longer be offered thin and PREFACE.IV rare, as theof morality, but hymns delicate, beautiful, and souls which wait to receive them." />

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