PREFACE. HE following Poems pretend to be nothing more TH than simple and unstudied effusions upon familiar topics, written during occasional hours of leisure. The youthful Author is emboldened to place them before the public by the generous reception which was accorded to a local volume published by him a few years ago. Should this book succeed in ministering comfort to one sorrowing spirit, or afford the reader in its perusal one-half of the pleasure which it has given the Author in its composition, these "Songs of the Heart" will not have been written in vain. Stone Hall, Wallingford, JUNE, 1871. W. B. A. |