Barbed arrows harmless fall,

If I praise and glorify thee

In the fires, my Life! my All!

June 8, 1841.

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ON THE DEATH OF HENRY DICKSON,

Infant son of Thomas A. Elliott, M. D., of Orangeburg, S. C.

He died ere sorrow’s blighting breath

Had o’er him pass’d;

Cold sinking in the arms of Death,