![]() As with parental pride, Which he ne'er sought to hide, He fondly gazed on his loved family. His manly face would glow with honest glee. ![]() ![]() Responsive to sweet sympathy's kind claim, His quick impulsive heart Loved to take active part In mirthful joy or sorrowing grief and pain. A simple unsophisticated life, With faith in action strong, And perseverance long, Made all he did with vigorous purpose rife. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Home Lyrics, by H. Perception of the beautiful and bright, In nature and in art, Evolved from his true heart Perpetual beams like sunshine's cheering light. Shrined in the sacred temple of my soul, He seems again to live, And fond affection give, His mother's heart comfort and console. I would gaze down the vista of past years, In fancy see to-night, A loved one passed from sight, But whose blest memory my spirit cheers. TO THE MEMORY OF A BELOVED SON WHO PASSED FROM EARTH, APRIL 3rd, 1887. George's Hall To the Museum Committee, on opening Museums on Sundays Only a Few Links Wanting A Painful History Self Denial To a Faithful Dog Flowers A Welcome from Liverpool to the Queen In Response to a Kind Gift of Flowers Health Ingratitude Trees To a Faithful Dog Self Discipline The Centenary of a Hero Springbank Recollections of Fontainebleau The Tunbridge Wells Flower Show INDEX. To Our Polar Explorers To the Inconstant Thanksgiving "Peace with Honour" The New Year Home It is but a Faded Rosebud Cleopatra's Needle A Voice from St. A Legend of Old France The Brooklyn Catastrophe The Naini Tal Catastrophe Langtry as Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer" The Shaker Girl Ice Palace The Fable of the Sphynx Up, Sisters, Morn is Breaking Oh! I Love the Free Air of the Grand Mountain Height Sunrise Love To the Empress Eugenie on the Death of Her Son Science Christmas Morn A Victim to Modern Inventions It is but an Autumn Leaflet Written on board the S. For a Little Five Year Old The Angel on War In Memoriam The Rink A Binghampton Home Mrs. To the Memory of a Beloved Son who passed from Earth April 3rd, 1887 Birdies. This second volume of HOME LYRICS has been published since the death of the authoress, and in fulfilment of her last wishes, by her children, and is by them dedicated to the memory of the dearest of mothers, whose whole life was consecrated to their t heir happiness and welfare and who fully reciprocated her self-denial, devotion and love.
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