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WINNIE AND I.

NEW YORK:

J. C. DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.

CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

J. C. DERBY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY

THOMAS B. SMITH,

82 & 84 Beekman Street.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

APTOR, LENOX AND
FILDEN FOUNDATIONS

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WINNIE AND I

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"Darkly we move-we press upon the brink Haply of unseen worlds, and know it not."

"For life is but a struggle of base will

With intellectual purpose; and the rod
Which chastens pride is in the hands of God,
Who does not always smite, nor wholly kill!"

THE soft moonlight, bathing with pale rays the budding trees, and twinkling brokenly on little rippling streams and points of rocks along the road, found its way, not only through the carriage windows, but into my heart, which was softened. and humbled by its silent influence, as great tears attested, that had been till now forbidden to flow.

How silent and cold the stars were, throned afar off in boundless space, living on in regal splendor, so passionless, so still! But the moon, so like a gentle step-mother, full of sympathy and good deeds, laying her fair gifts all about us, wins the stricken heart that yields to her meek, holy power. And mine, that had been so hard and

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