Lyrics of Love (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lyrics of Love

It is customary for one to preface his writing with a few remarks of an apologetic character. Reluctantly complying with this custom, I offer this little volume to the consideration of those who may feel disposed to join me in my humble lays, with the earnest hope that it may be to them what it has been to me - a source of real comfort and a delightful recreation. Some years ago, when I wrote my first verse, little did I think that it would result in this effort. Since then, I have written a few hundred poems and hymns, if such they are worthy to be called, and of these a few choice se lections are given. I wrote not for profit, but for the real pleasure of the hour; not for the poet's fame, which is as polluting as it is perishable, except so far as it widens the field of usefulness; but. I wrote rather be cause-i love to sit at eve alone, and sing of Thee, my Darling and Spouse.

Though the world. Is full of hymns, and rhymes conclude each passing hour; and though the very least of them may far surpass the best that I have written, yet few, if any, can prove more sweet to me than the very fruit of my own affection and experience. I lay no claim to genius; to learning, less; nor dare I boast a writer's gift, or penman's triumph. The critic may find many thorns, the scrupulous a briar, but he who really loves to love, a flower or two.

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