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Ballads for the Times

(Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised
Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889)

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Ballads for the Times, &c. &c.
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A Thousand Lines, etc.
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Hartenus, etc.
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SOME EARLY POEMS.
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CONTRASTED SONNETS.
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Six American Ballads.
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I.— To Brother Jonathan.
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II.— “Ye Thirty noble Nations.”
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III.— John's Rejoinder.
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IV.— The “International.”
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V.— A Stave for the South.
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VI.— “Yet once again.”

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177

Counsel.

FOR MUSIC.

There is a time for praising,
And a better time for pray'r,—
The heart its anthem raising,
Or uttering its care:
One minute is for smiling,
Another for the tear,—
Hope, by turns, beguiling,
Or her haggard brother, Fear.
But, if in joy thou praisest
The generous Hand that gave,—
And if in woe thou raisest
The pray'r that He may save;
Thy griefs shall seem all pleasure
As the chidings of a Friend,
And thy joy's ecstatic measure
A beginning without end!
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