Melodies for childhood
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Thomas N. Stanford
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Children's poetry
Notes: Title page vignette.

"Oh! say not, dream not, heavenly notes to childish care are vain; That the yount ... at random ..., And cannot reach the strain. Dim, or unheard, the words many fall, And yet the heaven-taught mind may learn the sacred sir, and all the harmony unwind.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.