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PREFACE.


feeling, and a command of language quite extraordinary, considering the circumstances in which she had been placed.

The second poem, entitled "Starlight," written in memory of an infant brother, although characterised by religious thoughts of great beauty, is wanting in the singular pathos and power of imagination shown in the lines to her sister.

My leading motive for printing