Poems for the Sea/Preface
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PREFACE
This little book is the result of some personal acquaintance with the element whose name it bears. Might it go forth with the voyager, over the path-less waters, and perchance, tenderly deepen the image of the friend who had made it a parting gift, it would fulfil a pleasant destiny.
L.H.S.
- Hartford, Dec., 1849.