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Chips, fragments and vestiges by Gail Hamilton

collected and arranged by H. Augusta Dodge
Dodge, Mary Abigail (1833-1896)

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THE ROSE
  
THE DEAD BIRD
  
AN EPIC OF A BOY
  
IN THE STREETS OF “OLD LAN”
  
“PAYING HIM BACK”
  
LINES
  
SLAVERY
  
INDEPENDENCE
  
SELFISHNESS
  
LINES
  
THE BRIDAL AND THE FUNERAL
  
THE LITTLE ONE GONE BEFORE
  
THE LOST FAN
  
A TRAGEDY
  
PICTURES
  
LINES TO MY ALGEBRA
  
AN ACROSTIC
  
THAT OLD KNIFE
  
A DREAM
  
TO MY BROTHER
  
THE SONG OF THE GOUT
  
LINES
  
A REQUIEM FOR THE DEPARTED
  
THE LAST INDIAN
  
TO JOSE BARDOTTEE
  
TO AN ANCIENT SHOE
  
A PARODY
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A METRICAL ROMANCE.
  
“LITTLE KATY”
  
DITHYRAMBIC
  
THE YOUTH AT THE FOUNTAIN
  
HOPE
  
FROM THE GERMAN
  
THE MYSTERIOUS MAIDEN
  
SEHN-SUCHT
  
MIDNIGHT
  
RESOLUTION
  
MORNING
  
ALONE
  
SHADOWS
  
“MAN GOETH TO THE GRAVE AND WHERE IS HE?”
  
TO ---
  
TO ---
  
WHAT IT MEANT
  
“NOT ALL A DREAM”
  
THE RAIN
  
TO—YOU! IF YOU UNDERSTAND THEM
  
TO AGNES O'BRIEN
  
TO THE REV. MR. B.
  
VALE ET SALVE
  
VALE ET SALVE AGAIN!
  
AILANTHÈ
  
POPPING THE QUESTION
  
A BATTLE SONG FOR FREEDOM
  
WHAT YOU'D BETTER DO, JENNY MARSH
  
ON THE SIDEWALK
  
O LAND BEYOND THE SOUNDING SEA
  
TO ELLEN AUGUSTA HUNT IN ALABAMA
  
DR. KANE
  
THE NOSIAD
  
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES OR: WHO I AM
  
A VALEDICTORY
  
TO DR. MURDOCK
  
TO MR. OWEN
  
TO MR. SMITH
  
ANTENATAL
  
TO C. L. TALLANT
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VESTIGES
  
TO—
  
A PENCILED-SKETCH
  
BY THE SEA
  
A VISION
  
“ETTIE”
  
ORIGINAL ODE
  
HYMN SUNG AT THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL IN BRAINTREE
  
ANSWERED
  
FOR THE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
  
[Lines on a Fly-leaf]
  
TEA PARTY IN HAMILTON
  
TROSY'S DEFENCE OF HERSELF AGAINST THE CHARGE OF SLAUGHTER, AND CRUELTY, AND GUILT
  
TO SECRETARY ROBESON
  
TO MRS. MARY CHANDLER HALE
  
MOTHER IPSWICH
  
TO LITTLE “c”
  
BIRTHDAYS
  
THE FLOWER
  
HAMILTON
  
TO MY COMRADES IN CHRIST

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ANTENATAL

Little Baby feet, patter, patter,
Coming hither down the road from Heaven—
Little Baby cheek, rest softly
On the mother's breast God hath given—
Little Baby life, float lightly
In the sea of love round thee flowing—
Little Baby sun, rise brightly,
Far be the night of thy going.
Little Baby soul, love wisdom,
Borne to thee in fatherly caresses—
Little Baby heart, learn goodness,
Dropt to thee in motherly kisses;
Love-guided wisdom be thy pole-star,
So shall the Earth-life given
Be but a firm and gentle treading
Back again along the road to Heaven.
March 9, 1858.
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