Regard for the interests of little readers throughout the country, has induced the owners of copy-rights to allow the insertion of several favorite songs in this collection. Those from "Hastings' Nursery Songs," published by M. W. Dodd, New York, are in that work set to music for the young. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by MARY O. WARD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Right of publishing transferred to the American Tract Society WELCOME, Welcome, little stranger, Mother's heart is filled with pleasure, Mayest thou, if designed by heaven May her anxious cares and labors And thy soul be crowned with favors From the boundless source above. BABY, SLEEP. Sleep, baby, sleep, No longer weep; Near thee sits thy little brother, Close beside thee is thy mother : Sleep, baby, sleep. Sleep, baby, sleep, No longer weep; Taylor Israel's Shepherd watches o'er thee, Sleep, baby, sleep, No longer weep; Germ of beauty, bud and blossom, Sleep, baby, sleep. |