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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,