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    Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: Occasional Poems Part 3 From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Release Date: December 2005 [EBook #9583] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 18, 2003]

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      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, PERSONAL POEMS, PART 3 ***

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      OCCASIONAL POEMS

      BY

      JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      CONTENTS:

      EVA A LAY OF OLD TIME A SONG OF HARVEST KENOZA LAKE FOR AN AUTUMN FESTIVAL THE QUAKER ALUMNI OUR RIVER REVISITED THE LAURELS JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF THOMAS STARR KING'S HOUSE OF WORSHIP HYMN FOR THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT GEORGETOWN, ERECTED IN MEMORY OF A MOTHER A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION CHICAGO KINSMAN THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF LONGWOOD HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA LEXINGTON THE LIBRARY I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN CENTENNIAL HYMN AT SCHOOL-CLOSE HYMN OF THE CHILDREN THE LANDMARKS GARDEN A GREETING GODSPEED WINTER ROSES THE REUNION NORUMBEGA HALL THE BARTHOLDI STATUE ONE OF THE SIGNERS

      EVA

      Suggested by Mrs. Stowe's tale of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and written when the characters in the tale were realities by the fireside of countless American homes.

      Dry the tears for holy Eva,

      With the blessed angels leave her;

      Of the form so soft and fair

      Give to earth the tender care.

      For the golden locks of Eva

      Let the sunny south-land give her

      Flowery pillow of repose,

      Orange-bloom and budding rose.

      In the better home of Eva

      Let the shining ones receive her,

      With the welcome-voiced psalm,

      Harp of gold and waving palm,

      All is light and peace with Eva;

      There the darkness cometh never;

      Tears are wiped, and fetters fall.

      And the Lord is all in all.

      Weep no more for happy Eva,

      Wrong and sin no more shall grieve her;

      Care and pain and weariness

      Lost in love so measureless.

      Gentle Eva, loving Eva,

      Child confessor, true believer,

      Listener at the Master's knee,

      Suffer such to come to me.

      Oh, for faith like thine, sweet Eva,

      Lighting all the solemn river,

      And the blessings of the poor

      Wafting to the heavenly shore!

      1852

      A LAY OF OLD TIME.

           Written for the Essex County Agricultural Fair, and sung at the

           banquet at Newburyport, October 2, 1856.

      One morning of the first sad Fall,

      Poor Adam and his bride

      Sat in the shade of Eden's wall—

      But on the outer side.

      She, blushing in her fig-leaf suit

      For the chaste garb of old;

      He, sighing o'er his bitter fruit

      For Eden's drupes of gold.

      Behind them, smiling in the morn,

      Their forfeit garden lay,

      Before them, wild with rock and thorn,

      The desert stretched away.

      They heard the air above them fanned,

      A light step on the sward,

      And lo! they saw before them stand

      The angel of the Lord!

      Arise, he said, "why look behind,

      When hope is all before,

      And patient hand and willing mind,

      Your loss may yet restore?

      "I leave with you a spell whose power

      Can make the desert glad,

      And call around you fruit and flower

      As fair

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