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1. Kindness, 9
2. Written at the Delaware Water Gap, 10
3. Written in an Album, 11
4. On Reading “Gibbon’s Rome,” 12
5. Written in a Friend’s Album, 14
6. Written after a Visit to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 15
7. Oh! Time, as it Fleets, Dooms a Joy To Decay, 16
8. On Leaving Pine Cottage, 17
9. The Morn and Eve of Life, 19
10. The Evening Star, 21
11. Recognition in Heaven, 22
12. Written in L. J.’s Album, 23
13. The Alpine Horn, 25
14. The Gathering Round the Oak Tree, 27
15. J. H. on the Death of his Wife, 29
16. Thou Great First Cause, 31
17. In a Season of Bereavement, 33
18. On a Packet of Letters, 36
19. Reply of the Messenger Bird, 38
20. Heaven and Earth, 40
21. Hush, Hush! my Thoughts are Resting, 42
22. Consolation in Bereavement, 45
23. Suggested by the Conversation of a Brother and Sister, 46
24. On the Death of my Uncle, Joseph Paul, 48
25. Spring, 49
26. Oh, for a Home of Rest! 50
27. Life’s Stages, 51
28. The Shepherd of Israel, 56
29. Woodburn, 58
30. J. & H. C. Backhouse, 60
31. The Plagues of Egypt, 64
32. The Last Look is Taken, 69
33. To a Friend, 71
34. Farewell, 73
35. The Last Day, 75
36. The Reunion, 79
37. On the Death of Elizabeth Fry and Sir T. F. Buxton, 80
38. Ephesians 4:32, 82
39. At a Time of Deep Proving, 85
40. As an Eagle Stirreth up her Nest, 86
41. William Forster, 88
42. All Alone, 92