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+Religions Songs and Hymns.+

GEORGE HERBERT’S _Temple_. Read selections from Crashaw and Vaughan. Study Milton’s _Hymn on the Nativity_, and selections from Keble’s _Christian Year_. Read Pope’s _Universal Prayer_, and _The Dying Christian_; also selections from Moore’s _Sacred Songs_, Byron’s _Hebrew Melodies_, and Milman’s _Hymns for Church Service_.

For specimens and extracts of lyric poetry of every class, consult Ward’s _English Poets_; Appleton’s _Library of British Poets_; _The Family Library of British Poets_; Emerson’s _Parnassus_; Chambers’ _Cyclopædia of English Literature_; Bryant’s _Library of Poetry and Song_; and Piatt’s _American Poetry and Art_.