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From year to year!. Knox, Thomas Wallace, (1835–1896). Story, William Wetmore, (1819–1895). Millard, Henry B., (1832–1893). Whittier, John Greenleaf, (1807–1892). Hunt, Josie S.. Wetmore, H. H., Mrs.. Clark, Charles Dunning, (1843–1892). Piatt, John James, (1835–1917). Torrey, Hiram. Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, (1831–1885). Hood, Tom, (1835–1874). Cary, Alice, (1820–1871). Cary, Phoebe, (1824–1871).
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The Pastor's Daughter

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FROM YEAR TO YEAR! A TOKEN OF REMEMBRANCE.

EDITED BY

ALICE AND PHŒBE CARY.

NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY GEO. A. LEAVITT, No.8 HOWARD STREET.

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FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

  • WHEN spring time comes across the hills,
  • In robes of modest beauty drest;
  • Nature through all her pulses thrills,
  • And smiles sweet welcome to her guest.
  • Gay blossoms weave their broidery through
  • The soft green carpet of the grass;
  • And pretty buds make haste to strew
  • The way her tender feet do pass.
  • The birds, shy poets of the woods,
  • That waited for her coming long,
  • Break up again the solitudes
  • With the glad music of their song.
  • And men and maidens with the flowers
  • Tell secrets never breathed in words,
  • As, walking through the leafy bowers,
  • They learn sweet lessons of the birds.
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  • Yet men complain, and maidens sigh,
  • Sometimes even while the spring is here;
  • That birds and flowers alike must die,
  • And may not last FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
  • They grieve to see the time draw near
  • When bloom and song leave wood and glen,
  • And winter comes, the stern and drear,
  • Alike to nature and to men.
  • Therefore to you who wait the spring,
  • This modest wreath, by fancy wove,
  • An offering from our hearts we bring,—
  • A simple tribute of our love.
  • We bring you words of constancy,
  • Of steadfast faith, and fond complaint,
  • Sweet flowers of love and poesy,
  • Immortal as the joys they paint.
  • Hoping while these your hours beguile,—
  • Gathered your pleasant hearths about,
  • The word within so bright shall smile,
  • You shall not heed the world without.
  • And we again would come when comes
  • This wintry season, bleak and drear;
  • With song and sunshine for your homes
  • And flowers that bloom FROM YEAR TO YEAR!

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

  • THE PASTOR'S DAUGHTER—FRONTISPIECE
  • THE COTTAGE DOOR. 85
  • THE LOVER'S COMPLAINT. 120
  • SPEAKING EYES. 174
  • A QUIET SPIRIT. 211
  • THE DAISY. 248
  • THE SPINNING WHEEL. 275
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