OF

CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED,

OR

Voices from the Silent Land.

BY

MRS. H. DWIGHT WILLIAMS,

AUTHOR OF

"A YEAR IN CHINA."

O, soothe us, haunt us, night and day,

Ye gentle spirits far away,

With whom we shared the cup of grace,

Then parted-ye to Christ's embrace,
We to the lonesome world again;
Yet mindful of th' unearthly strain
Practised with you at Eden's door,
To be sung on, where angels soar,
With blended voices evermore.

KEBLE.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE,

1334 CHESTNUT STREET.

NEW YORK: A. D. F. RANDOLPH, 770 BROADWAY

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

WM. L. HILDEBURN, TREASURER,
in trust for the

PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

DEDICATED

TO

The Memory of One

WHO HAS DEPARTED TO

THE SILENT LAND;

A MUCH-LOVED AND DEEPLY-LAMENTED BROTHER, WHOSE
EARLY AND IRREPARABLE LOSS HAS CAUSED