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Poems and hymns. Ball, T. H. (Timothy Horton), 1826–1913. 
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Poems and Hymns


BY

T. H. BALL.


CROWN POINT, IND.
PRINTED AT THE "REGISTER" OFFICE.
1888.

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Copyright 1888,
BY
T. H. BALL.

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  • "Nature never did betray
  • The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege
  • Through all the years of this our life to lead
  • From joy to joy; for she can so inform
  • The mind that is within us, so impress
  • With quietness and beauty, and so feed
  • With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues
  • Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
  • Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
  • The dreary intercourse of daily life,
  • Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
  • Our cheerful faith--that all which we behold
  • Is full of blessings."
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Introductory Note.

These hymns and poems are collected into this volume for my personal acquaintances and friends, and not for the literary world. Many of them are memorial in their nature and will have an interest, therefore, for some readers aside from any special poetic merit. That they are of unequal merit I am well aware; and I have been for many years sufficiently acquainted with a limited range of poetic literature to know quite well their merits and demerits. Such as they are, and written quite hastily as of necessity nearly all of them have been, I am sure that my friends will receive them cordially into their homes and libraries, collected as they now are from different periodicals and manuscripts and presented in a single volume. They are arranged, it will be seen, in chronological order.

T. H. B.

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