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- p. 82: chesnuts → chestnuts
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Olive Leaves
The Indian Chief.—P. 229.
OLIVE LEAVES.
OR,
SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.
BY
MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.
GALL & INGLIS.
| London: 25 PATERNOSTER SQUARE. | Edinburgh: 20 BERNARD TERRACE. |
PREFACE.
An Olive Leaf was the first gift of the Earth after theFlood, to the sole survivors of a buried race. It was borneby the Dove, spreading a timid wing over the surging waters,so lately without a shore.
The plant thus honoured, as the love-token of a World,rising in freshness from the wrecks of the Deluge, has longbeen a consecrated emblem of peace. It then brought thejoyful tidings to the voyagers in the lonely Ark, of a homeonce more upon the green earth; and has since cheered manya Christian heart, with the assurance that the bitter watersof strife had abated.
These, my simple "Olive Leaves," would fain be love-tokensto you, sweet young friends, who may chance to takethem in your hand. Buds of the olive and of the rose, areye: pour forth the spirit of peace and love, as ye unfold andripen on the pilgrimage of life, that you may be gatheredat its close, where their bloom is eternal.
L. H. S.
Hartford, Connecticut.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| PREFACE, | 3 |
| THE LOST AND FOUND, | 9 |
| CHILDHOOD'S PIETY, | 18 |
| FRANK LUDLOW, | 19 | ...