Life-lights of song, ed. by D. Page

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LIFE LIGHTS OF SONG.

A Selection of Poetry,

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

COMPRISING

Songs of God and Nature.
Songs of Love and Brotherhood.
Songs of Life and Labour.
Songs of Worth and Honour.
Songs of Home and Fatherland.

EDITED BY DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.,

AUTHOR OF "PHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY," ETC.

HILE numerous Selections of Poetry have been published—some to indicate the thought of the age, others the peculiar styles of the authors; some to exhibit beauty of sentiment, and others merely to afford subjects for pictorial illustration-few have appeared

possessing a definite and practical life-purpose. The object of the present Selection is eminently didactic-to bring the charms of poesy and the memory of its expression to bear on the conduct and character. The first volume refers to the reverential relations that ought to subsist between man and nature and the God of nature; the second, to man's duties of love and benevolence to his fellow-men; the third, to the realities of the life and labour in which all must engage; the fourth, to the ever-guiding principles of truth and honour; and the last, to those ennobling sentiments which link mankind to their homes, hearths, and fatherlands. The aim is to embrace a circle of Life-duty, without descending to details-to enlist the attractions of poesy where the precepts of prose might fail to inculcate.

"Song from baser thoughts should win us;

Song should charm us out of woe;

Song should stir the heart within us
Like a patriot's friendly blow.

"Pains and pleasures, all man doeth,

War and peace, and right and wrong,—
All things that the soul subdueth

Should be vanquish'd, too, by Song.

Song should spur the mind to duty,

Nerve the weak, and stir the strong:
Every deed of truth and beauty

Should be crown'd by starry Song!"

In every instance, the best and most catholic
pieces that lay within the reach of the compiler
have been chosen. While avoiding high ideal
flights that might lie beyond the comprehension
of ordinary readers, he has been equally careful
in excluding mere rhymes that would fail to
attract, or, from their inferiority, cease to be
remembered. The volumes have been produced
in a form at once elegant and available—in a
form that may be perused with pleasure in the
parlour, carried with convenience in the pocket,
or read with delight in the fields.

Though published as a Series, each volume,
having an independent aim, can be purchased
as a separate work. The issue will take place
during the ensuing winter-the first volume
early in November, and the second early in
December; the others at monthly intervals in
February, March, and April, 1864.

WILLIAM P NIMMO, EDINBURGH & GLASGOW.

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Henry W. Longfellow's Poetical Works.