Echoes from Cape Ann : a book of poems, recitations, and memorial tokens

Front matter

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BY

MARIA J. DODGE.

Introduction

Like an echo from the ocean, Send I out my thoughts to thee,

Hoping that the generous people Will be good and kind to me.

If you take the shells of ocean And hold them closely to your ear,

There is a gentle undulation, Like an echo, you will hear.

So it is, when hearts, vibrating. Speak to hearts in poet strain,

Waking there a tender echo.

Answering heart to heart again.

If I ask for words of comfort From the busy people's brain, —

Give to me a sweet compassion. Do not let me ask in vain.

Contents

Acrostics ....

A Fruitless Search

All Souls are Mine

II I Do Believe

I Know that my Redeem er Livet

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CONTEXTS.

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In Memory of Our Dead Soldiers In Memory of My Father ...

In Memory of Our Nation's Martyr James A. Garfield ....

In Memory of Sister :Mary E. Crockett

In Memoriam Martha Smith Watts . In Memoriam Melissa ....

In Memory of Mrs. Sarah D. Beckford

In Memory of My Sister, Mary S. Hinck

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In Memory of Mary, Wife of Albert Ober

Invocation

Jack Frost

Jesus' Promise

Josephine ... ....

Land of Nod

Leander

"Let not Your Heart be Troubled"

Lines suggested by the Decorations

Independent Christian Church Little Birdie ...•••

Meditation

Midnight Revels

Minnie

Miss Cadwallader, 1776

Mother's Old Hymn . . • •

Motto

Nellie

Northern Light Lodge, Pigeon Cove

Now

Ode to Our Hall

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CONTENTS.

Ode to Summer ....

Our Nation's Hero. U. S. Grant

Passion Poems .

Pay the Debts

"Peace, be Still" .

Prayer

Precious Jewels

Queries

Rape's Chasm .

Rapture

Reminiscences of Fraternity Lodge

Retrospection .

Reverie on Niles' Beach

Rock of Ages .

Sacred to the Memory of Tenie

Sacred to the Memory of Emma Gorman

Sacred to the Memory of My Friend

Betsy A. Parsons Seventeenth of June Sheridan .

Song of Jubilee Sooner or Later Sorrow Strike Hard Submission Temper.\nce Bells .

Temperance Poem .

The Babe of Bethlehem The Building of the Temperance Fleet

on Old Cape Ann The Declaration The Drunkard's Plea .

The Eagle's Nest .

The Empty Nest The Essex County Sg^jadron

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