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Excerpt from Songs for All Seasons: A Scriptural and Poetical Calendar for Holidays, Birthdays, and All Days This volume is a collection of the author's hymns and short poems, arranged as a' poetical calendar for daily reading and reference, and for holidays, birthdays, memorial and other occasions. There is a poem for every day in the year, with consecutive dates, and preceding each and adapted to it are two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and another from the New, making more than seven hundred choice selections from the Inspired Book - furnishing blessed supplies for devout meditation and texts for rich discourse. Some of these songs have a special significance and relation to the dates indicated - the day, the month, the year - the last shown by the appended figures that note also the time of their composition. The range is more than half a century. The earlier ones, culled from the author's three volumes of verse published at intervals, have been more or less revised. A portion of the later songs were printed in the Christian Secretary, while he was conducting it, the themes being those of the Sunday-school lessons. These the reader will readily recognise by the order in which they appear. Hymns and odes for particular occasions have been inserted at the dates when they were used. Others commemorate events which occurred at the dates given. It will be observed that a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.