LETTERS

FROM

NEW YORK.

FROM

NEW-YORK.

BY MARIA CHILD.

AUTHOR OF "THE MOTHER'S BOOK," "THE GIRL'S BOOK,"
"PHILOTHEA," &c.

"We receive but what we give,

And in our life alone does Nature live.

Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud!
And would we aught behold of higher worth,
Than that inanimate cold world, allowed
To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd,
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the Earth:

And from the soul itself must there be sent
A sweet and potent voice of its own birth,
Of all sweet sounds the life and element."

COLERIDGE.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1843.

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