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PREFACE.
Some of the poems in this volume have never before been published. Others have appeared in America, but are supposed to be equally new here.
Should it be inquired why they are presented to the public in an age not eminently poetical, or why they are offered at all in a country whose literary resources are so rich and abundant, the Author has little to say. Possibly, the kindness and hospitality which have every where greeted her may have emboldened her too far,—if so, she hopes to be forgiven;—and may the wild flowers, from the clefts of the rock and the far western forests, which she thus leaves trembling in a foreign clime, never forget to breathe the fragrance of a stranger’s gratitude.
L. H. S.
London, March 20th, 1841.
