Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme

AUTUMNAL LEAVES.
TALES AND SKETCHES IN PROSE AND RHYME. BY L. MARIA CHILD.
I speak, as in the days of youth, In simple words some earnest truth.
NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 554 BROADWAY. BOSTON:—53 DEVONSHIRE STREET. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, By C. S. Francis & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. Several of the articles contained in this volume have appeared in various periodicals ten or twelve years ago. Others have been recently written, during the hours that could be spared from daily duties.




“A form more fair, a face more sweet, Ne’er hath it been my lot to meet. And her modest answer, and graceful air, Show her wise and good, as she is fair. Would she were mine; and I to-day A simple harvester of hay; With low of cattle, and song of birds, And health, and quiet, and loving words.” Then he thought of his sister, proud and cold, And his mother, vain of her rank and gold. J. G. Whittier.