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ILLUSTRATIONS.

Longfellow's Residence

"'T was an angel visited the green earth

And took the flowers away"

"Singing in the village choir "

Excelsior.

"Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep"

"There groups of merry children played"

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A PSALM OF LIFE.

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO

THE PSALMIST.

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ELL me not, in mournful numbers, “Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

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