PREFACE.
The author puts these poems to press with the knowledge that they should all be rewritten,
and with a painful regret that he has no leisure to rewrite them before extending their publicity in
a new reprint. The subjects of the poems, and the feelings expressed in them, have given them a
popularity independent of criticism, and to that tide he again commits them — to flow as far as they
will. He rests his hope of reputation on having the leisure to overtake and pass them at some
future day.
