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The adopted daughter

and other tales
Cary, Alice (1820-1871)
  
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CONTENTS.

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THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER.
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THREE SCENES IN THE SOUTH.
 3. 
MARY NEILLY.
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THE LAST OF TORCONNIER'S BAND.
 5. 
THE SPOILER.
 6. 
A COUNTRY RECOLLECTION, OR, THE REFORMED INEBRIATE.
 7. 
THE WAY-SIDE SPRING.
 8. 
THE DYING HUSBAND.
 9. 
A WATER-SONG.
 10. 
OUT OF THE TAVERN.
 11. 
AGATHA TO HAROLD. A BALLAD.
 12. 
TWILIGHT
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LITTLE PELEG, THE DRUNKARD'S SON;
 14. 
THE HEART'S LITANY.
 15. 
COMFORT.
 16. 
THE PEN AND THE PRESS.
 17. 
LOVELY WOMAN.
 18. 
THE CONSECRATION.
 19. 
THE SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE AND THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.
 20. 
“LOVE AND CHERISH ONE ANOTHER!”
 21. 
ROSE MAY, THE NEW SCHOOL-MISTRESS. A REMINISCENCE OF A NAMELESS VILLAGE.
 22. 
THE DEAD YOUTH OF THE ISTHMUS.
 23. 
CAST OUT THE WINE.
 24. 
A TALE.
 25. 
NANNY.
 26. 
MY EARLY FRIEND.
 27. 
THE SHADOW-DEATH.
 28. 
LOVE'S ASSURANCE.
 29. 
THE AUCTION, OR THE WEDDING-COAT. A TALE OF TRUTH.
 30. 
THE NEGLECTED.
 31. 
WINE OCCASIONALLY. EVELYN.
 32. 
UNEQUAL YOKING: A WARNING TO YOUNG WOMEN.
 33. 
THE ANGEL CHILD.
 34. 
A SISTER'S LOVE.
 35. 
THE DEVOTED.
 36. 
THE BASKET-MAKER. DEDICATED TO THE ARISTOCRACY.
 37. 
OUT-SPOKEN LOVE.
 38. 
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.
 39. 
IDELLA PEMBERTON.
 40. 
AN AUTUMN SONG.
 41. 
THE LOVE OF ZEPHYR AND THE VIOLET.
 42. 
PRETTY, LAUGHING EOLINE.
 43. 
FEMALE PIONEERS OF THE WEST;
 44. 
MY WORK
 45. 
WORDS.
 46. 
ONE LEAF OF LIFE.
 47. 
THE TWO CLERKS.
 48. 
WINTER.
 49. 
LAMENT OF THE FORSAKEN.
 50. 
A TALE OF THE DESTROYER.
 51. 
THE SPIRIT OF THE VINE.
 52. 
NIAGARA.
 53. 
A TRUE STORY.
 54. 
EARTH'S HEAVENLY VISITOR.
 55. 
THE VOICE AND PEN.
 56. 
WATCHING.
 57. 
THE HISTORY OF A NEIGHBORHOOD. A TRUE TALE.

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THE HEART'S LITANY.

BY F. H. STAUFFER.

My spirit, overpowered, would praise thee, O King!
For the blessings the seasons alternately bring:
For the woodland and prairie and the golden grain,
For the wane of the sunlight, and its birth again;
For the blessings around us that genius shed,
In the hearts of the living embalming the dead;
For sunshine and shadow—the rose and the thorn.
For the deluging torrent and the dew of the morn;
For angel-kin visions—for the pestilence breath,
For the spring-time of life, and the mildew of death:
For the contrast makes sweeter the happier seem,
And the soul teaches lightly earth's joys to esteem
For the wonders of Nature—the comforts of art,
And those thrilling delights early friendships impart;
But far above all for the talisman given,
That round us, e'en here, throws a forecast of heaven!
I tremble while rend'ring such a tribute as this,
In return for unnumbered donations of bliss!
A voice seems to whisper—“The lisping child's prayer,
Full as swift as his curate's, speeds on through the air!”
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