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PREFACE | v |
NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS— |
I. | Some like drink | 3 |
II. | Here, perfect to a wish | 4 |
III. | As seamen on the seas | 5 |
IV. | The pamphlet here presented | 6 |
MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES— |
I. | See how the children in the print | 9 |
II. | Reader, your soul upraise to see | 11 |
III. | A PEAK IN DARIEN—Broad-gazing on untrodden lands | 13 |
IV. | See in the print how, moved by whim | 15 |
V. | Mark, printed on the opposing page | 17 |
MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES— |
I. | With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee | 21 |
II. | The careful angler chose his nook | 23 |
III. | The Abbot for a walk went out | 25 |
IV. | The frozen peaks he once explored | 27 |
V. | Industrious pirate! see him sweep | 29 |
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS— |
| For certain soldiers lately dead | 33 |
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE VERSES |
I. | PROEM—Unlike the common run of men | 37 |
II. | THE PRECARIOUS MILL—Alone above the stream it stands | 41 |
III. | THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES—The first pine to the second said | 45 |
IV. | THE TRAMPS—Now long enough had day endured | 49 |
V. | THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER—The howling desert miles around | 51 |
VI. | THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN—The echoing bridge you here may see | 55 |
MORAL TALES— |
I. | ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY—Come, lend me an attentive ear | 59 |
II. | THE BUILDER’S DOOM—In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin | 73 |