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THE SHOWER OF PEARLS,

A Collection of Poetry,

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

IN TWO SERIES,

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY CHARLOTTE PHILLIPS.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO., STATIONERS'-HALL COURT;
AND JARROLD AND SONS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD;
PETERBOROUGH J. S. CLARKE, MARKET PLACE.

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TO THE LITTLE BOYS,

(MY OWN PUPILS,)

THIS VOLUME, CONTAINING MANY OF THEIR FAVOURITE PIECES,

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PREFACE.

THE following selection of Poetry has been arranged and published in a cheap form for the use of schools. The book is divided into two parts and the pieces are classified according to the ages and capacities of the Pupils. Many of them are selected from our best poets, both ancient and modern, and even the simpler rhymes have been chosen with some regard to taste, and with a view to create and foster in the youngest child a love for true poetry.

How early the mind may be influenced through such agencies we all know, and these reminiscences of our childish and youthful days, associated as they are with our best and holiest feelings, recur to us in after life with exquisite freshness and beauty.

Like the memories of dear departed friends, they steal over our spirits, soothing us in the hour of sorrow, strengthening us in the time of temptation, and whispering to us in angel strains of something more bright and enduring than the dark and evervarying scenes through which we are called to pass. Let none fear any ill result from the inculcation

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