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Cypress leaves. Cutter, Louise J., (1835–1853?).
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CYPRESS LEAVES.
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Louise J. Cutter.

CYPRESS LEAVES.

BY

LOUISE J. CUTTER.

WITH A BIOGRAPHY.

BY

MARY W. JANVRIN.

I plant a tree whose leaf The yew-tree leaf will suit; But when its shade is o'er you laid, Turn round and pluck the fruit! Now reach my harp from off the wall Where shines the sun aslant; The sun may shine and we be cold— O harken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt! MRS. BROWNING.

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY J. M. USHER, 37 CORNHILL.

1856.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of 1856, by J. M. USHER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. BAZIN & CHANDLER, Printers, 37 Cornhill.

OBEYING THE HALLOWED REQUEST
OF
The Dear Departed,
THAT,
WERE THESE LEAFLETS EVER BOUND TOGETHER, THEY SHOULD BE INSCRIBED TO HIM, WHO WAS TO HER BOTH
SKILFUL PHYSICIAN AND KINDEST FRIEND,
TO
DANIEL SWAN, M. D.
OF MEDFORD,
THEY ARE NOW OFFERED, WITH GRATEFUL MEMORIES,
BY

HER MOTHER

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PREFACE.

To gratify a sacred, dying wish, have the writings now offered to the public in their present form, been gathered. "If you think they are worthy, let them be published after I am gone," said a young and lovely being, who lay wasting under the ruthless touch of that Destroyer, who loves to mark Earth's fairest beings for his own; and thus, with its merits and its faults—its beauties and its blemishes—goes forth this book.

O reader, lingering over its pages, look not for the splendid passion-flowers of Life's fervid Summer, nor the hardier ones of the ripened Autumn time; only for sweet, tender Spring blossoms! O critic, let not these "Cypress Leaves" wither beneath thy touch—for they droop, greenly, above a a grave!

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CONTENTS.

PROSE.

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POETRY.

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