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THE YOUTH'S CORONAL.
BY HANNAH FLAGG GOULD
Whate'er the good instruction may reveal,
The head must take, before the heart can feel.
THE MORALIZER.
1851
ADDRESS
TO THE YOUTH OF MY COUNTRY.
In preparing the following pages, my aim has been, to produce a bookalike entertaining and instructive;—one which, in the reading, shouldafford an amusement to the mind, pleasant as the spring-blossoms on thetree; and, in its influences on the heart in after life, be like thegood fruits that succeed and ripen, to refresh and nourish us, when thevernal season is over and gone, and the voices of the singing-birds arelost in the distance.
Choosing an appropriate title for such a presentation, I have borrowedmy idea from the words of the wise king of Israel:—"Hear theinstruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother; forthey shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head," &c., and otherScripture passages of similar figurative meaning; for, though oftengiven in a sportive way, it is my design that no moral shall beconveyed in the volume, but such as a good and judicious parent wouldwish a child to imbibe.
Accept, then, my young Friends, this new CORONAL of the little flowersof poesy which I have woven for you. When you shall have examined andscented it, and found no thorn to pierce—no juice or odor to poison youin its whole circle, wear it for the giver's sake; and enjoy it andprofit by its healthful influences, for your own.
Gladly would I feel assured that, in some future years,—when I shallhave done with earthly flowers, and you will be engaged in the busyscenes and arduous duties of mature life,—the import of these leavesmay from time to time arise to your memory, in all its dewy freshness,like the fragrance which the summer-breeze wafts after us, from thelilies and violets we have passed and left far behind us, in our morningrambles. Then, if not to-day, you will be convinced that I was—as now Iam,
Your true Friend,
H. F. GOULD.
Newburyport, Mass., August, 1850.
CONTENTS
Sudden Elevation; or The Empaled Butterfly