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THANATOPSIS. 
 
 Of the stern agony, and shroud, 
 
 and pall, 
 And breathless darkness, and the 
 
 narrow house, 
 Make thee to shudder, and grow 
 
 sick at heart ; — 
 Go forth, under the open sky, 
 
 and list 
 To Nature's teachings, while 
 
 from all around — 
 Earth and her waters, and the 
 
 depths of air — 
 Comes a still voice — Yet a few 
 
 days, and thee 
 The all-beholding sun shall see 
 
 no more 
 
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The narrow house. 
 
Go forth, under the 
 
 open sky, and list to 
 
 Nature's teachings. 
 
THANATOPSIS. 
 
 In all his coarse ; nor yet in the 
 cold ground, 
 
 "where thy pale for?\t was laid, with 
 many tears." 
 
 Where thy pale form was laid, 
 with many tears, 
 
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THANATOPSIS, 
 
 And, lost each human trace, sur- 
 rendering up 
 
 Thine individual being, shalt thou 
 go ^ 
 
 To mix forever with the elements, 
 
 To be a brother to the insensible 
 rock 
 
 And to the sluggish clod, which 
 the rude swain 
 
 Turns with his share, and treads 
 upon. The oak 
 
 Shall send his roots abroad, and 
 pierce thy mould. 
 
 Yet not to thine eternal resting- 
 place 
 Shalt thou retire alone, nor 
 couldst thou wish 
 
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To thine eternal 
 resting-place. 
 
THANATOPSIS, 
 
 Couch more magnificent. Thou 
 shalt lie down 
 
 'THE OAK SHALL SEND HIS ROOTS ABROAD, 
 AND PIERCE THY WOULD." 
 
 With patriarchs of the infant 
 world — with kines, 
 
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The vales stretching in 
 
 pensive quietness 
 
 between. 
 
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THANATOPSIS. 
 
 The powerful of the earth — the 
 
 wise, the good, 
 Fair forms, and hoary seers of 
 
 ages past, 
 All in one mighty sepulchre. 
 
 The hills 
 Rock-ribbed and ancient as the 
 
 sun, — the vales 
 Stretching in pensive quietness 
 
 between ; 
 The venerable woods — rivers 
 
 that move 
 In majesty, and the complaining 
 
 brooks 
 That make the meadows green ; 
 
 and, poured round all. 
 
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Rivers that move in 
 majesty. 
 
The complaining 
 
 brooks that make the 
 
 meadows green. 
 
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THANATOPSIS. 
 
 Old Ocean's gray and melancholy 
 
 waste, — 
 Are but the solemn decorations 
 
 all 
 Of the great tomb of man. The 
 
 golden sun, 
 The planets, all the infinite host 
 
 of heaven, 
 Are shining on the sad abodes of 
 
 death, 
 Through the still lapse of ages. 
 
 All that tread 
 The globe are but a handful to 
 
 the tribes 
 That slumber in its bosom. — Take 
 
 the wings 
 
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Old Ocean's gray and 
 
 melancholy 
 
 waste. 
 
Like one who wraps 
 
 the drapery of his 
 
 couch about 
 
 him. 
 
THANATOPSIS. 
 
 Of morning, and the Barcan 
 
 desert pierce, 
 Or lose thyself in the continuous 
 
 woods 
 Where rolls the Oregon, and 
 
 hears no sound, 
 Save his own dashings — ^''et the 
 
 dead are there : 
 And millions in those solitudes, 
 
 since first 
 The flight of years began, have 
 
 laid them down 
 In their last sleep — the dead reign 
 
 there alone. 
 So shalt thou rest, and what if 
 
 thou withdraw 
 
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THANATOFSIS. 
 
 Unheeded by the living, and no 
 
 friend 
 Take note of thy departure ? All 
 
 that breathe 
 Will share thy destiny. The gay 
 
 will laugh 
 When thou art gone, the solemn 
 
 brood of care 
 Plod on, and each one as before 
 
 will chase 
 His favorite phantom ; yet all 
 
 these shall leave 
 Their mirth and their employ- 
 ments, and shall come 
 And make their bed with thee. 
 
 As the long train 
 
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Yet all these shall 
 
 leave their mirth 
 
 and their 
 
 employments. 
 
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TH AN ATO PSIS, 
 
 Of ages glide away, the sons of 
 
 men, 
 The youth in life's green spring, 
 and he who goes 
 
 In the fulL 
 strength of 
 years, mat- 
 r o n and 
 maid. 
 And the sweet 
 babe, and 
 the gray- 
 headed 
 man — 
 Shall one by one 
 be gathered to thy side. 
 
 " WHEN THY SUMMONS 
 COMES." 
 
The youtli in life's 
 green spring. 
 

 
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The sweet babe, and 
 
 tlie gray-lieadecl 
 
 man. 
 
THANATOFSIS, 
 
 By those, who in their turn shall 
 follow them. 
 
 So live, that when thy summons 
 
 comes to join 
 The innumerable caravan, that 
 
 moves 
 To that mysterious realm, where 
 
 each shall take 
 His chamber in the silent halls of 
 
 death. 
 Thou go not, like the quarry-slave 
 
 at night, 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but, 
 
 sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach 
 
 thy grave, 
 
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THANATOPSIS. 
 
 Like one who wraps the drapery 
 of his couch 
 
 "sustained and soothed by an un- 
 faltering TRUST." 
 
 About him, and lies down to 
 pleasant dreams. 
 
COLLECTION OF MASTER- 
 PIECES. 
 
 This Collection of certain of the most 
 successful and best-loved works by vari- 
 ous authors has been entered upon by its 
 publishers with the intention of making- 
 it as exquisite and perfect in form as 
 possible. Each volume contains a large 
 number of original illustrations by well- 
 known artists, made especially for the 
 Collection, and printed with the utmost 
 care. 
 
 The 'typographical details are some- 
 what in the best modern French style, 
 and the paper is of the highest grade, 
 and has been manufactured especially 
 for this Collection, which is issued in a 
 variety of beautiful bindings, to corre- 
 spond with the dainty interiors of the 
 books. 
 
 The following volumes are ready, each 
 of which can be had in either of the 
 bindings described: 
 
 Masterpieces of Prose and Verse. 
 
 " Selections from Point Lace and Dia- 
 monds." Baker. Illustrated by C. 
 Moore-Sm ith . 
 
*' A Child's Dream of a Star." Dick- 
 ens. Illustrated by Elizabeth S. 
 Tucker. 
 "The DayDkeam." Tennyson. Illus- 
 trated by IV. St. John Harper. 
 "Evangeline." Longfellow. Illus- 
 trated by Charles Howard Johnson. 
 "Thanatopsis." Bryant. Illustrated 
 
 by Corivin Knapp Linson. 
 "Songs of Seven." Ingelo\v. Illus- 
 trated by Kirk Este. 
 "Violet" bindinor, with backs of can- 
 vas, richly ornamented in j(old, and with 
 outer sides illuminated with design of 
 purple violets, with gold background. 
 Gilt top. In a box. 
 
 Per volume, .... 75 cents. 
 Full dull brown cloth, or full white 
 cloth, with artistic ornamentation in 
 gold. Gilt lop. In a bo.x. 
 Per volume, .... 75 cents. 
 
 Half calf. Gilt top. In a box. 
 Per volume, .... $1.50. 
 
 Limp calf. Red-under-gold edges. 
 In a box. 
 Per volume, .... $2.00. 
 
 Other volumes in preparation. 
 
Specimen Pages, 
 
 A Cliild's Dream of a 
 Star/' Dickens. 
 
 Collection of '' Mastcrpitcesy 
 
specks play- 
 - -' • ing at hide- 
 
 and-seek in 
 the sky all night, must surely 
 be the children of the stars ; 
 and they would all be grieved 
 to see their playmates, the 
 children of men, no more." 
 There was one clear, 
 shining star that used to 
 come out in the sky before 
 the rest, near the church 
 spire, above the graves. 
 

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A CHILD S DREAM OF A STAR. 
 
 sister drooped, and came to be 
 
 so very weak that she could no 
 
 longer stand in the window at 
 
 night ; and 
 
 then the child 
 
 looked sadly 
 
 out by himself 
 
 and when he 
 
 saw the star, 
 
 turned round 
 
 . and said to 
 
 the patient 
 
 THE CHTLD LOOKED pale face on 
 
 SADLY OUT BY 
 
 HLMSELF. the bed, " I 
 
 see the star ! " and then a smile 
 would come upon the face, and a 
 little weak voice used to say, "God 
 bless mv brother and the star ! " 
 

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Specimen Pages, 
 
 Evangeline/' Long- 
 fellow. 
 
 Collection of " IMasterpieces?'' 
 
PATIENCE : THE PKIEST WOULD SAY. 
 
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 ""HUNTING FOR FURS IN THE FORESTS." 
 
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 K \ A N <. K 1. INK 
 
 Silenced, but not convinced, when the 
 story was ended, the blacksmith 
 
 Stood like a man who fain would 
 speak, but findeth no language ; 
 
 And all his thou<ihts congealed into lines 
 on his face, as the vapors 
 
 Freeze in fantastic shapes on the win- 
 dow-panes in the winter. 
 
 Then Evangeline lighted the brazen 
 lamp on the table. 
 
 " WROTE WITH A STEADY HAND.'' 
 
HOLDING ALOFT IN HIS HANDS, WITH ITS SEALS, 
 THE ROYAL COMMISSION." 
 
74 EVANGELINE. 
 
 Over the watery floor, and beneath the 
 
 reverberant branches ; 
 But not a voice replied ; no answer came 
 
 from tlic darkness ; 
 And, when the echoes had ceased, like a 
 
 sense of pain was the silence. 
 Then Evangeline slept ; but the boatmen 
 
 rowed through the midnight, 
 Silent at times, then singing familiar 
 
 Canadian boat-songs, 
 
 " WATliK-LlLIES IN MVKIADS.'' 
 
 Such as they sang of old on their own 
 
 Acadian rivers, 
 And through the night were heard the 
 
 mysterious sounds of the desert. 
 Far off, indistinct, as of wave or wind in 
 
 the forest. 
 
Specimen Pages, 
 
 ''The Day Dream/ 
 Tennyson. 
 
 CoUeaicn of " Masterpieces:' 
 
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THE DAY-DREAM, 
 
 III. 
 
 O eyes long laid in happy 
 sleep ! ' 
 ' O happy sleep, that hghtly 
 fled ! ' 
 
 *' AND o'er them many A FLOWING RANGE 
 OF VAPOR BUOy'd THE CRESCENT-BARK." 
 
 ' O happy kiss, that woke thy 
 sleep ! ' 
 ' O love, thy kiss would wake 
 the dead ! ' 
 
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THE DAY-DREAM, 
 
 Each baron at the banquet sleeps. 
 Grave faces gather'd in a ring. 
 
 AND BEAKER BRIMM D 
 WITH NOBLE WINE. 
 
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Specimen Pages, 
 
 " Songs of Seven." In- 
 gelow. 
 
 Collection of " Masterpiecesr 
 
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 "but i'll love him more, more than e'er wife 
 loved before, be the days dark or bright." 
 
BY THE SYCAMORE 
 
 PASSED HE, ANDTHROUGH 
 
 THE WHITE CLOVER. 
 
SONGS OF SEVEN, 
 
 IV. 
 
 A song of a nest : — 
 There was once a nest in a 
 hollow : 
 
 " I PRAY YOU HEAK MY SONG OF A NEST, 
 FOR IT IS NOT LONG." 
 
 Down in the mosses and knot- 
 grass pressed, 
 Soft and warm, and full to the 
 brim — 
 
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SONGS OF SEVEN, 
 
 
 "o VELVET BEE, VOU'rE A DUSTY FELLOW. 
 
 O velvet bee, you're a dusty fel- 
 low, 
 You've powdered your legs 
 with gold ! 
 O brave marsh marybuds, rich 
 and yellow, 
 Give me your money to hold ! 
 
 O columbine, open your folded 
 wrapper. 
 Where two twin turtle-doves 
 dwell ! 
 
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Specimen Pages, 
 
 ' Selections from Point 
 
 Lace and Diamonds/' 
 
 Baker. 
 
 Collection of " Alasterpieces.''' 
 
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 AVE TWO too:-: tossession of the stairs. 
 
 — Paze 8. 
 
20 FROM *' J'OINT LACK AND DIAMONDS." 
 
 " HliK FACE IS SAINT-LIKE." 
 
 That briglit young creature kneel- 
 ing tliere 
 With every feeling, every thought 
 
 Absorbed in higli and holy dreams 
 Of — new Spring dresses, truth to 
 say 
 To them the time is sanctified 
 
 From Shrove-tide until Easter 
 dav. 
 
I, HELENA, TAKE THEE — LOVE — CHER- 
 ISH and' — WELL, I can't HELP 
 
 IT, — 'obey.'" 
 
CHIVALKIK. 
 
 " HEK 1 AIHKk's voice CAME THROIGH THE 
 
 WOOIJ, Hi:"u MADE A lOKTUNE 
 
 TANNING LEATHEK." 
 
 Above, the heavens aglow with 
 
 light, 
 
 Beneath our feet the sleeping 
 
 ocean, 
 
 E'en as the sky my hope was bright. 
 
 Deep as the sea was my devotion. 
 
 Her father's voice came through 
 the wood, 
 He'd made a fortune tanning 
 leather ; 
 I was his clerk; I thought it good 
 To keep on talking about the 
 weather. 
 
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