TO A DEAF AND DUMB LITTLE GIRL. LIKE a loose island on the wide expanse, What can she know of beaut [eous] or sublime? THE GOD-CHILD. I STOOD beside thee in the holy place, And was both bond and witness to the vow That sacred sign which time shall not efface TWINS. BUT born to die, they just had felt the air, Of human life was all but all their share. Two whiter souls unstain'd with sin or care Shall never blossom from the fertile tomb;- Let man that on his own desert relies, And deems himself the creditor of God, Think how these babes have earn'd their paradise, God only made them for His Christ to save. BOYHOOD AND GIRLHOOD. DID our first parents in their happy seat, To K. H. I. THE INFANT GRANDCHILD OF A BLIND GRANDFATHER. OH sweet new-comer to the changeful earth! And find it false, and turbulent, and vain; The very shadow of old reverence. But well for us that there is something yet, Which change cannot efface, nor time forget ;- The brook-like gurglings, murmuring after meaning; |