Excerpt from The Poems of Mary Howitt: With a Memoir Page. Childhood 212 l'envoi 216 sketches OF natural history The Coot 219 The Eagle 221 The Garden 220 The Spider and the Fly 226 tales IN verse Andrew Lee 230 The Wanderer' s Return 232 A Swinging Song 239 Ellen More 240 A Day of Disaster 244 The Young Mourner 249 The Soldier's Story 251 The Child's Lament 257 A Day of Hard Work. 260 The Old Man and the Carrion Crow 264 The Little Mariner 268 miscellaneous pieces: The Sale of the pet Lamb of the Cottage 274 America 278 Mourning on Earth 291 Re Joicing in Heaven 292 An English Grave at Mussooree. 293 A Forest Scene In the days of Wicklifi'e 297. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.