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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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LOVE'S ASSURANCE.

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LOVE'S ASSURANCE.

BY MRS. C. MARIA LANDON.

Oh! were it not that Heaven had placed
Its shrine within thy soul,
And Truth—sweet daughter of the skies—
Had made thy heart her goal,—
And had not Purity and Love,
Like gems some bright crown above
Descended on thy brow,—
I should not feel the holy tie
That links our spirits now.
And were there less of noble fire
Within those eyes of thine,
That always softens when it meets
These duller orbs of mine;
And hadst thou less of holy zeal,
To do thy duty and God's will,
I should not know, as now I do,
That when Life's path is trod,
And we are call'd away, to view
Our Father and our God;
Where symphonies of glory roll
Around the Eternal Throne,
And songs of rapture thrill the soul
We shall be ever one.
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