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Title: Our Gift

Author: Teachers of the School Street Universalist Sunday School, Boston

Release Date: January 28, 2004 [EBook #10853]

Language: English

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FROM THE LIBRARY OF

PAUL & VIRGINIA CROWLEY

OUR GIFT.

BOSTON:

ABEL TOMPKINS, NO. 38 CORNHILL.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

By ABEL TOMPKINS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

DEDICATION.

"We offer no words of inspired thought,
No gems from the mines of wisdom brought,
No flowers of language to deck the page,
No borrowed glories of Muse or Sage;
But an offering simple and pure we bring,
And a wreath of wild roses around it fling;
Not culled from the shades of enamelled bowers,
But watered by love's own gentle showers.
In tones of affection we here would speak;
To waken an echo of love we seek;
We mingle our tears for the early dead,
To the land of spirits before us fled.
While a moral we humbly would here entwine
With the flowers we lay on affection's shrine,
We pray that the light of religion may dawn,
To brighten our pathway each coming morn.
Then with love for each other OUR GIFT we bring,
And love for the memories that round it cling,
And trust in the hopes that are lighted here,
To burn with new brightness each passing year.
And as Time moves on with unceasing tread,
And the flowers of youth are withered and dead,
May no sigh of regret to the past be given,
As it peacefully fades in the light of Heaven."

PREFACE.

"OUR GIFT" has been prepared as a token of affection for our Sunday
school Pupils, and it is hoped that it may serve a similar purpose in
the hands of other teachers. It has been said, that "_He who gives his
thought, gives a part of himself_." It was this idea th