[Illustration: handwritten: Yours truly Lizzie Doten] POEMS OF PROGRESS. BY LIZZIE DOTEN. “If an offence come out of the Truth, better is it that the offence come, than the Truth be concealed.” JEROME. “Stand out of my sunshine.” DIOGENES OF SINOPE. BOSTON: WILLIAM WHITE AND COMPANY, BANNER OF LIGHT OFFICE, 158 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK AGENTS--THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, 119 NASSAU STREET. 1871. Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY MISS ELIZABETH DOTEN, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane. CONTENTS. PAGE DECLARATION OF FAITH (PREFATORY). 5 THE CHEMISTRY OF CHARACTER. 11 LET THY KINGDOM COME. 14 THE SPIRIT OF NATURE. 17 MARGERY MILLER. 20 THE LAW OF LIFE. 26 A RESPECTABLE LIE. 33 THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. 38 REST THOU IN PEACE. 42 ANGEL LILY. 44 THE ALL IN ALL. 48 “ECCE HOMO.” 50 PETER MCGUIRE; OR, NATURE AND GRACE. 56 HYMN OF THE ANGELS. 62 GONE HOME. 64 THE CRY OF THE DESOLATE. 66 THE SPIRIT-MOTHER. 69 FACE THE SUNSHINE. 77 HESTER VAUGHN. 83 SONG OF THE SPIRIT CHILDREN. 87 HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP. 90 THE FAMISHED HEART. 92 THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE. 99 REFORMERS. 102