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SONGS YSAME




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      GOLDEN TREASURY OF AMERICAN SONGS AND LYRICS.

      Edited by F. L. KNOWLES.

      CAP AND GOWN. First Series.

      Edited by J. L. HARRISON.

      CAP AND GOWN. Second Series.

      Edited by F. L. KNOWLES.

      SONGS YSAME.

      By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON and ALBION FELLOWS BACON.

      OUT OF THE HEART.

      Edited by J. W. CHADWICK.


    L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers
    (INCORPORATED)
    196 Summer Street, Boston

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SONGS YSAME

BY ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON AND ALBION FELLOWS BACON

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    BOSTON
    L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY
    (INCORPORATED)
    MDCCCXCVII




    _Copyright, 1897_,
    BY L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

    (INCORPORATED)

    Colonial Press:

    Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
    Boston, Mass., U. S. A.




    TO

    Our Mother
    MARY ERSKINE FELLOWS




CONTENTS.


  ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
                                          PAGE
  [A]AT A TENEMENT WINDOW                   53
  [A]AT EARLY CANDLE-LIGHTING               18
  BANDITTI                                  65
  [B]"BOB WHITE"                            25
  ECHOES FROM ERIN                          47
  ELINOR                                   114
  [B]FELIPA, WIFE OF COLUMBUS               60
  INTERLUDE                                 79
  IN THIS CRADLE-LIFE OF OURS               74
  MY CAROL                                  71
  OCTOBER                                   88
  ON A FLY-LEAF OF "AFTERWHILES"           118
  ON A FLY-LEAF OF "FLUTE AND VIOLIN"      115
  PRELUDE (NOW I CAN SING, ETC.)          xiii
  RETROSPECTION                             45
  SPENDTHRIFT                               67
  THE FICKLE HEART                          64
  THE LEGEND OF THE <DW29>s                102
  [A]THROUGH AN AMBER PANE                  50
  TRAILING ARBUTUS                         100
  'TWIXT CREEK AND BAY                      62
  VOICES OF THE OLD, OLD DAYS               39


  ALBION FELLOWS BACON.

  A MADRIGAL                                98
  [C]A MOOD                                101
  A RESOLVE                                123
  A SONG                                    55
  AN ALPINE VALLEY                          49
  AN OLD-TIME PEDAGOGUE                     31
  AT LAST                                  125
  AT TWILIGHT                               90
  CHIARO-OSCURO                            120
  ECLIPSE                                   57
  ELIZABETH                                113
  GRANDFATHER                               27
  HER TITLE-DEEDS                           34
  HERE AND THERE                            75
  IN THE DARK                               58
  INSPIRATION                              116
  LEFT OUT                                  95
  LOST                                      69
  MAY-TIME                                  84
  MARRIED                                  108
  MOTHERHOOD                               109
  "OH, DREARY DAY"                          83
  ON A FLY-LEAF OF IRVING                  117
  OPHELIA                                  111
  "OUR FATHER"                              97
  PRELUDE (WE CANNOT SING, ETC.)          xiii
  REQUIEM                                  112
  SILENT KEYS                               41
  SPRING'S COPHETUA                         86
  STRANDED                                 124
  SUFFICIENCY                              110
  THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES               17
  THE MILKY WAY                             76
  THE OLD BELL                             106
  THE OLD CHURCH                            29
  THE POTTER'S FIELD                        93
  THE PROPHET                               91
  THE ROBBER                                70
  THE SEA                                  107
  THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD                    66
  THE TIME O' DAY                           99
  THE TOWER OF BABEL                       104
  WINTER BEAUTY                             87
  WHEN YOUTH IS GONE                        63
  WHEN SHE COMES HOME                      122

FOOTNOTES:

[A] By permission of _Youth's Companion_.

[B] By permission of _Harper's Weekly_.

[C] By permission of _Frank Leslie_.




PRELUDE.


   _WE cannot sing of life, whose years are brief,
    Nor sad heart-stories tell, who know no grief,
    Nor write of shipwrecks on the seas of Fate,
    Whose ship from out the harbor sailed but late.
    But we may sing of fair and sunny days,
    Of Love that walks in peace through quiet ways;
    And unto him who turns the page to see
    Our simple story, haply it may be
    As when in some mild day in early spring,
    One through the budding woods goes wandering;
    And finds, where late the snow has blown across,
    Beneath the leaves, a violet in the moss._
       _1887._                              _A. F. B._


   _NOW I can sing of life, whose days are brief,
    For I have walked close hand in hand with grief.
    And I may tell of shipwrecked hopes, since mine
    Sank just outside the happy harbor line.
    But still my song is of those sunny days
    When Love was with me in