Hymns for Childhood

by Felicia Hemans

HYMNS FOR CHILDHOOD,

BY

FELICIA HEMANS.

DUBLIN

WILLIAM CURRY JUN. AND COMPANY.
SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON.

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MDCCCXXXIV.

PREFACE.

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The following very simple compositions were written a few years ago, exclusively for the Author's family circle, and without the remotest idea of their publication. It is now her wish to render them more extensively, however humbly, useful. The Hymns were intended to associate the first devotional thoughts of childhood with the loveliness and solemnity diffused over the outward creation. Should they prove acceptable, they may perhaps be followed by a series, of a character more entirely scriptural.

Contents.
		Page
	Introductory Verses	11
	The Rainbow	14
	The Sun	17
	The Rivers	19
	The Stars	22
	The Ocean	25
	The Thunder Storm	28
	The Birds	31
	The Sky Lark—Child's Morning Hymn	36
	The Nightingale—Child's Evening Hymn	38
	The Northern Spring	41
	Psalm 147, Paraphrased	43
	Christmas Carol	46
	Christ Walking the Water	48
	A Father Reading the Bible	50
	A Dirge	53
	The Child's First Grief	54
	Epitaph on Two Brothers	56
	Birth Day Lines to a young Child, in Autumn	58
	On a Similar Occasion	60
	The Hour of Prayer	62
	Hymn by the Sick Bed of a Mother	64