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DEDICATION. TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN, in memory of our happy days at Loughrigg Brow, which, though no longer our residence, I am grateful to think may still be regarded as a second Home, the following Poems, written at intervals during several years, and now for the first time published, are affectionately dedicated by the Author. The Rectory, Cheltenham, October 1876.