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Title: The token : a Christmas and New Year's present
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
Subjects: Gift books
Publisher: Boston : Carter and Hendee
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ifted up their voices loud.Like mourners for the dead. So sorrowed they—but not so these Yet clustered calmly there, Now pouring forth, upon their knees. The blended voice of prayer; Faint are their tremulous words, but high Their looks of solemn pride. And radiant every aged eye With tears—but smiles beside. 116 THE TOKEN. Dark were their bosoms too, and sore With yearnings unconfessed; But sunlight, where they looked before, Came from the gleamy west— Freedoms strong hope and faith in God, Filled them with holy cheer— They rose with hands unclasped, and tiod With footsteps firm as eer. A THOUGHT. The storm is hushed, and on the deepThe moonbeams sleep,Pure as the light that gleamsFrom a spirits eye.When it comes in dreamsFrom the holy sky, And looks smiling down on some friend below.With no earthly frown upon its snowy brow.And oh! when lifes dark storm is done.May our souls forgiven.Lit by a never setting sun.Be fixed in heaven. As the stars that sleep in yon Upper Deep. G.
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ASclfcifer PuhHshcrl b\- S.G.Goodricli f. Co Kosloii. THE LOST CHILDREN BY N. P. WILLIS. There is a nice distinction in Scheflers picture ofthe Lost Children. You would think at the first glancethat the design was faulty. The position of the boy,and his face buried in his hands, show that he isovercome by his situation, and has abandoned himselfto his feeling;s, while the girl stands looking into thedim wood, sorrowful indeed, but with a countenance ofthat earnest and patient sadness which expresses herwillingness to look longer for the path if her brotherwill, and an evident bearing up, against sympathy andexample, of the hope of her little heart. It shows a fine trait of observation in the mind of thepainter. If there were danger to encounter, or anydefinite obstacle to overcome, the boy would be resoluteand foremost. He would climb, or take a perilous leap,or struggle with a fierce animal, or do anything that aboys daring may compass; but he cannot bear, after allhis exertions have

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