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Excerpt from Echoes of Half a Century Poems
The author of the following verses frankly owns that he once indulged the hope of seeing them gathered from the various periodicals in which they originally appeared, and issued in book form; but for a long time past, that pleasing, vision had been dispelled by the stern realities of later life. He solaced himself for its loss, however, with the re?ec tion that literary fame, like all other, is only for the favored few; and even those with the highest eu dowments have been so anticipated by their prede cessors, that they can expect to add but little that is rare or memorable to the vast treasury of orig inal thought. Humbly accepting his just place among the innumerable inheritors of oblivion, he had ceased to remember the foundlings of his fancy, when the fond partiality of his kindred took in hand the task of rescuing them from their long oh scurity, and of soliciting for their reunion such chance for further life, as their collected vitality might seem to warrant. He has called them echoes - audible visitants from the past - yet each with'its.
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