New Juvenile Scrap Book: A Collection of Most Interesting Tales and Narratives, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young People (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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My Brother.

By The Rev. Thomas Greenwood.

Boy, love thy sister: how she loveth thee,
Well thatembrance, and well that look expresses;
Guarding from harm thy helpless infancy.
Be not forgetful of her young caresses:
When added years reverse the tender duty,
Guard thou, as fondly, her defenceless beauty.

Oh never, then, let thy affection sleep,
But promply pour it forth whene'er she needeth;
As oft she will, - for we are born to weep;
And ah! most oft the gentlest spirit bleedeth,
Since treachery and foul wrong usurped dominion,
Where love alone once plied his downy pinion.

As in thy lap her little store of flowers,
Fragrant and fair, disdaining selfish pleasure,
Without reluctance or reserve she pours:
So know thy gen'rous after-love no measure,
On her conferring, or with her dividing,
The bounties Heaven is evermore providing.

Boy, love thy sister: let not her soft eye
Be dimmed with tears at thy ungrateful coldness:
Add to her joys - swift to her rescue fly,
When danger threats - and with that look of boldness,
Stand forth her champion. Of her tenderness
In childhood think, and shield her from distress.

The Forgotten Word.

It is an eve of summer; the glad sky
Smiles on the slumbers of the tranquil earth
As a fond mother gazes on the babe,
Asleep upon her bosom.

At the door Of yonder cottage sits a peasant-girl -
A fair, pale girl, - and, cradled on her knee,
A younger child is sleeping; in her hand
A book informs us that the studious maid
Hath stolen from labour's claims this evening hour
For reading and reflection.

Patient child!
Thine image, sculptured by the graver's hand,
May teach full many a lesson - may reprove
The thoughtless sluggard in Acquirement's path,
And rouse him to exertion; or may cheer
The faint and weary student who, like thee,
Must steal from sterner duties all the time
He dares devote to study; and thy look
May cheer thy youthful learner in his task,
And bid him not relax to climb the steep
Where Fame's proud temple soars.

Thou gentle girl!
Thy task is self-requiting, and the toil
Becomes, indeed, a pleasure. Fare thee well!
Thy studious look, and meek, up-gazing eye,
Shall dwell mid Memory's treasures, and shall beam
O'er many an hour of study and of thought -
The cheering spirit of my waking dream.

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