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Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)

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CONNECTICUT RIVER.

LOCHLEVEN CASTLE.

EVENING AT HOME.

RADIANT CLOUDS AT SUNSET.

BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE.

APPEAL FOR MISSIONS.

THE UNCHANGED OF THE TOMB.

NORMAN KNIGHTS AND MONKS OF ELY.

THE LAST SUPPER.

RETURN TO CONNECTICUT.

“WHITHER SHALL I FLEE FROM THY PRESENCE?”

THE SABBATH BELL.

A COTTAGE SCENE.

THE BOY'S LAST BEQUEST

GIFT OF A BIBLE.

ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER, WHILE ABSENT AT SCHOOL.

THE WAR-SPIRIT.

THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH.

TO THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG LADY.

EVENING THOUGHTS.

COLUMBUS BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA.

“CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS.”

“THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSETH AWAY.”

THE BURMANS AND THEIR MISSIONARY.

“DIEM PERDIDA.”

PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA.

APPEAL OF THE BLIND.

DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL BOY.

SABBATH MORNING.

THE DESERT FLOWER.

THE SOUTH GEORGIAN LARK.

THE LAST WORD OF THE DYING.

SCENE AT THE DEATH-BED OF THE REVEREND DR. PAYSON.

THE CHILDREN OF HENRY FIRST.

THE SILVER AND THE GOLD ARE MINE.

BERNARDINE DU BORN.

THE AFRICAN MOTHER AT HER DAUGHTER'S GRAVE.

THE INSTITUTION.

ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, SOON AFTER HER INFANT SON.

THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH.

HEAVEN BRIGHTER THAN EARTH.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.

THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT.

FAREWELL TO AN ANCIENT CHURCH.

CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH.

THE HEART OF KING ROBERT BRUCE.

“'T WAS BUT A BABE.”

“ONLY THIS ONCE.”

THE LIBERATED CONVICT.

THE BELL OF ST. REGIS.

THE ANGEL'S SONG.

THE MARTYR OF SCIO.

PARTING OF A MOTHER WITH HER CHILD.

MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.

THE POET BRAINERD.

“THOU HAST MADE DESOLATE ALL MY COMPANY.”

BAPTISM OF AN INFANT, AT ITS MOTHER'S FUNERAL.

THE LONELY CHURCH.

PAUL AT ATHENS.

THE DISOBEDIENT SON.

“BLESSED ARE THE DEAD.”

FIRST GIFT TO THE INDIANS AT ALBANY.

MEETING OF THE BLIND WITH THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL.

“IN THE GARDEN WAS A SEPULCHRE.”

THE DYING PHILOSOPHER.

A MOTHER IN HEAVEN TO HER DYING BABE.

THE TOMB OF ABSALOM.

THE LOST DARLING.

THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS.

THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY TO LIBERIA.

THE MOURNING LOVER.

PICTURE OF A SLEEPING INFANT, WATCHED BY A DOG.

ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOLS IN AFRICA.

A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN.

PASSAGE OF THE BERESINA.

ON THE DEATH OF A POET.

SCENE AT ATHENS, DURING THE REVOLUTION.

ON THE DEATH OF MISS HANNAH ADAMS.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY.

THE LITTLE HAND.

ON LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE MONUMENT TO THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.

DREAM OF THE DEAD.

TO BEREAVED PARENTS.

THE SECOND BIRTH-DAY.

ON A PICTURE OF PENITENCE.

THE NINETIETH BIRTH-DAY.

THOUGHTS AT THE FUNERAL OF A RESPECTED FRIEND.

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ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOLS IN AFRICA.

Spirit of Science! who so long
Expatriate from thy native sphere,
Hast traced no line, and breathed no song,
That dark, deserted land to cheer—

Spirit of Power! who lotus-crowned
Didst reign 'mid Egypt's temples proud,
But in oblivion's slumbers drowned
'Neath the drear pyramids hast bowed—

Spirit of Piety! who nursed
Of old, amid that sultry clime
Oft from Tertullian's musing burst,
Or martyred Cyprian's page sublime,

Again ye wake, ye thrill the soul,
Your resurrection morn appears,
Ye pour your language o'er the scroll
Which Afric scans through raptured tears;

Wide may your hallowed wings expand
From shore to shore, from wave to wave,
Till distant realms shall stretch the hand
To strike the fetter from the slave—

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Till Afric to her farthest bound
Shall bid each billow of the sea,
And every palm-grove, catch the sound,
And echoing shout—“Be free! be free!”