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An amiable and highly accomplished young lady, who died soon after this poem was written. A tender tribute to her memory, by her father, will be found amongst the original poetic contributions.

The Author's beloved and ingenious relative, whose happy poetical powers have given an attraction to his former publications, and will be found to adorn part of the present volume under her accustomed signature—Unaltered in worth and talents, but, alas! still the victim of sickness.

The wife of William Moody, Esq. of Beau-Desert Park, near Henly in Arden. A woman of uncommon felicity of expression, and of a most generous heart. More than one effusion to her memory will be seen in the course of this division of Harvest Home.

Rev. Dr. Mavor, then suffering heavily; but now happily restored to his Friends and the Public, both of whom know how to appreciate the qualities of his head and heart.

Rev. Mr. Graves; of whose intellectual energy at the age of ninety-two , an extraordinary specimen will be given in the course of this volume, amongst the poetical republications.

Rev. G. Glasse, who, in describing the misery which befel his family from his house having fallen down at Hanwell, and many other severe misfortunes that preceded the yet greater calamity mentioned in these Verses, observed—“All these sorrows have been heaped upon me, in order, no doubt, to prune the over-luxuriance of prosperity, that had known but little interruption; in order, I trust, to make me wiser and better—to harrow up the soul, as Ogden beautifully has it, in order to make it capable of producing the seeds of virtue.”

Rev. Mr. Potter; a notice of whose recent death, and a tribute to whose memory, will be seen, in the beginning of the Poem of “Sympathy,” in close of the Harvest-Home.