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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


Speed Away!

The words of this song were based on the following statement current at the time the song was written, though it had probably little, if any, foundation in fact. "Among the superstitions of the Senecas is one which, for its singular beauty, is already well known. When a maiden dies, they imprison a young bird until it first begins to try its powers of song, and then loading it with kisses and caresses, they loose its bonds over her grave, in the belief that it will not fold its wings, nor close its eyes, until it has flown to the spirit land, and delivered its precious burden of affection to the loved and lost. 'It is not infrequent,' says the Indian historian, 'to see twenty or thirty birds loosened at once over one grave.' "

Isaac Baker Woodbury
  1819-1858.

Isaac Baker Woodbury 71

The Indian Girl’s Lament

William Cullen Bryant
  1794-1878.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 72
  1809-1847.

Ye say they all have passed away

From the poem Indian Names.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney
  1791-1865.

Wellington Guernsey 73
  1817-1885.
 Air :I’ hang my harp on a willow tree.

My Mother’s Memory

John Boyle O’Reilly
  1844-1890.

Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert 74
  1811-

The Death of Minnehaha

From The Song of Hiawatha.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1807-1882.

Charles Crozat Converse 75, 76, 77
  1834-

Child and Mother

Eugene Field
  1850-

Arr. from Voigtlaender 78, 79

Faithful

Phoebe Gary
  1824-1871.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 80, 81
  1756-1791.

The Captain’s Daughter

James Thomas Fields
  1817-1881.

Isaac Baker Woodbury 82, 83
  1819-1858.

The Little House on the Hill

Referring to the author's childhood home.

Alice Cary
  1820-1871.

Franz Peter Schubert 84
  1797-1828.

Curfew

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1807-1882.

Unknown 85

The Bridge

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1807-1882.

M. Lindsay 86,87,88,89

The Heritage

James Russell Lowell
  1819-1891.

Arr. from the German 90

Baby Charley

Sidney Lanier
  1842-1881.

Old college air 91

Will and I

Paul Hamilton Hayne
  1830-1886.

Unknown 92

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Eugene Field
  1850-

Giovanni Paisiello 93, 94, 95
  1741-1815.

The Proposal

Bayard Taylor
  1825-1878.

Christoph Willibald Gluck 96
  1714-1787.

May, the Maiden

Sidney Lanier
  1842-1881.

Joseph Barnby 97
  1838-

Air: Sweet and Low.

Idle

Alice Cary
  1820-1871.

Friedrich Ludwig Seidel 98, 99
  1765-1831,