144 Juvenile Music. THE CORAL BRANCH. A JUVENILE SONG BY MRS. S. J. HALE. MUSIC BY G. J. WEBB-WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT FOR THE PIANO FORTE. 1. I thought my branch of coral, A 2. It builds its coral palaces Than pretty shrub might be-- Until I learned a little worm Had made it in the sea. lofty hills more high: And then, the structure to complete The little worm must die. Down, down so deep, Where dark waters sleep, The coral insect lives. But rests not there with Thus teaching me, When coral I see, That, dying I should leave Some good work here, My oil and care,It upward,upward strives, But rests not there, With toil and care 1t upward, &c, friends to cheer, When o'er my tomb they grieve. Some good work here, My friends, &c. ME Fac Similes of the hand-writing of some of the pupils in the N. E. Institution for the Education of the Blind. Pendleton's Lith. Boston. Come, tis the hour of rent earthly toil and I rom and care, The day that God hath blest 14 |