The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1., Narrative and legendary poems, How the robin came., page 419

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Narrative and legendary poems

The Female martyr.

Extract from a New England legend.

The demon of the study.

Funeral tree of the Sokokis .

The cypress-tree of Ceylon.

The knight of St. John .

Cassandra Southwick .

The New wife and the old.

I. The Merrimac .

V. The New home.

Barclay of Ury.

The angels of Buena Vista .

The legend of St. Mark .

The well of Loch Maree.

The chapel of the Hermits .

The hermit of the Thebaid .

The Garrison of Cape Ann .

The gift of Tritemius.

Skipper Ireson 's ride.

The pipes at Lucknow .

Telling the bees.

The Swan song of Parson Avery .

The Double-Headed snake of New-Bury.

I. The river valley.

V. In the shadow.

The prophecy of Samuel Sewall .

The red river voyageur.

The truce of Piscataqua .

Cobbler Keezar's vision.

Amy Wentworth .

Among the hills.

The dole of Jarl Thorkell.

The two Rabbins.

Nauhaught, the Deacon .

King Volmer and Elsie .

The Three Bells.

John Underhill .

Conductor Bradley .

The witch of Wenham .

King Solomon and the Ants .

The dead feast of the Kol-folk.

The Khan's Devil.

The King 's missive.

The rock-tomb of Bradore.

The Bay of Seven Islands .

The Wishing Bridge .

How the women went from Dover .

Saint Gregory 's guest.

Birchbrook mill .

The two Elizabeths.

How the robin came.

Banished from Massachusetts .

The brown Dwarf of Rugen .

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[419]
If a truth be found therewith:
Unto gentleness belong
Gifts unknown to pride and wrong;
Happier far than hate is praise,—
He who sings than he who slays.

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888-89.

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