Eliza Lee Follen, a Boston writer and abolitionist, gathered the verses she had written for children over many years. Hymns and prayers for little boys and girls sit beside songs and fables in which a freed squirrel thanks his mistress and a pin, a needle and a pair of scissors quarrel in a work-box.
Gentle mid-nineteenth-century New England verse for children, with a preface by Charles Follen. Download the free EPUB.