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Excerpt from Idyls of Strawberry Bank Poems
When the author issued his first volume, twelve years since, he scarcely deemed that he Should so long have remained to bear the physical ills he suffered, and the concomitant evil of poverty; but, for a wise purpose, undoubtedly, the good God has retained him, the most unfortunate of his children, while he has removed thousands whose lives were precious in usefulness, about whom affection clung tenaciously but vainly. His purposes none can see but, with faith in the assurance that he doeth all things well, the heart strengthens, and the burden of life is easier borne. The author comes before his friends, and appeals to their sympathy and kindness from the depths of his long affliction, added to by the flight of years, and begs a passing thought which will penetrate to his retirement, and give his heart new hope. With many of these friends he began life, and passed hand in hand with them over youth's domain. Sep arated since from most of them, he has never forgotten those pleasant beginnings, and the glorious promise that then beck oned them on. Even in his darkness, those faces and those inci dents return that made life then pleasant, tingeing his gloomy cell like the sunbeam that cheered the prison of Cervantes. He wishes them to buy his work, and thus Show that the feeling he entertains is reciprocated. He needs their sympathy, but does not ask it as a beggar's alms trusting to receive it as a tribute of love and a token of remembrance, that shall bless the giver as well as aid the receiver.
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