Chapter I: Front Matter

SONGS YSAME

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SONGS YSAME.

By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON and ALBION FELLOWS BACON.

OUT OF THE HEART.

Edited by J. W. CHADWICK.

L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers
(INCORPORATED)
196 Summer Street, Boston

SONGS YSAME

BY ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON AND ALBION FELLOWS BACON

BOSTON
L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
MDCCCXCVII

_Copyright, 1897_,
BY L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

Colonial Press:

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

TO

Our Mother
MARY ERSKINE FELLOWS

CONTENTS.

ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
PAGE
[A]AT A TENEMENT WINDOW 53
[A]AT EARLY CANDLE-LIGHTING 18
BANDITTI 65
[B]"BOB WHITE" 25
ECHOES FROM ERIN 47
ELINOR 114
[B]FELIPA, WIFE OF COLUMBUS 60
INTERLUDE 79
IN THIS CRADLE-LIFE OF OURS 74
MY CAROL 71
OCTOBER 88
ON A FLY-LEAF OF "AFTERWHILES" 118
ON A FLY-LEAF OF "FLUTE AND VIOLIN" 115
PRELUDE (NOW I CAN SING, ETC.) xiii
RETROSPECTION 45
SPENDTHRIFT 67
THE FICKLE HEART 64
THE LEGEND OF THE PANSIES 102
[A]THROUGH AN AMBER PANE 50
TRAILING ARBUTUS 100
'TWIXT CREEK AND BAY 62
VOICES OF THE OLD, OLD DAYS 39

ALBION FELLOWS BACON.

A MADRIGAL 98
[C]A MOOD 101
A RESOLVE 123
A SONG 55
AN ALPINE VALLEY 49
AN OLD-TIME PEDAGOGUE 31
AT LAST 125
AT TWILIGHT 90
CHIARO-OSCURO 120
ECLIPSE 57
ELIZABETH 113
GRANDFATHER 27
HER TITLE-DEEDS 34
HERE AND THERE 75
IN THE DARK 58
INSPIRATION 116
LEFT OUT 95
LOST 69
MAY-TIME 84
MARRIED 108
MOTHERHOOD 109
"OH, DREARY DAY" 83
ON A FLY-LEAF OF IRVING 117
OPHELIA 111
"OUR FATHER" 97
PRELUDE (WE CANNOT SING, ETC.) xiii
REQUIEM 112
SILENT KEYS 41
SPRING'S COPHETUA 86
STRANDED 124
SUFFICIENCY 110
THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES 17
THE MILKY WAY 76
THE OLD BELL 106
THE OLD CHURCH 29
THE POTTER'S FIELD 93
THE PROPHET 91
THE ROBBER 70
THE SEA 107
THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD 66
THE TIME O' DAY 99
THE TOWER OF BABEL 104
WINTER BEAUTY 87
WHEN YOUTH IS GONE 63
WHEN SHE COMES HOME 122

FOOTNOTES:

[A] By permission of _Youth's Companion_.

[B] By permission of _Harper's Weekly_.

[C] By permission of _Frank Leslie_.

PRELUDE.

_WE cannot sing of life, whose years are brief,
Nor sad heart-stories tell, who know no grief,
Nor write of shipwrecks on the seas of Fate,
Whose ship from out the harbor sailed but late.
But we may sing of fair and sunny days,
Of Love that walks in peace through quiet ways;
And unto him who turns the page to see
Our simple story, haply it may be
As when in some mild day in early spring,
One through the budding woods goes wandering;
And finds, where late the snow has blown across,
Beneath the leaves, a violet in the moss._
_1887._ _A. F. B._

_NOW I can sing of life, whose days are brief,
For I have walked close hand in hand with grief.
And I may tell of shipwrecked hopes, since mine
Sank just outside the happy harbor line.
But still my song is of those sunny days
When Love was with me in those quiet ways.
And unto him who turns the page to see
That day's short story, haply it may be,
The joy of those old memories he feels:
As one who through the wintry twilight steals,
And sees, across the chilly wastes of snow,
The darkened sunset's rosy afterglow._
_1892._ _A. F. J._