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PREFACE.
up as freshly in the trodden vale, as on the cliff where the cloud settles.
Should it be objected that too great a proportion of them are elegiac, the required apology would fain clothe itself in the language of the gifted Lord Bacon:—"If we listen to David's harp, we shall find as many hearse-like harmonies, as carols; and the pencil of Inspiration hath more labored to describe the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon."
L. H. S.
Hartford, Conn. Sept. 1835.
