Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY J. BUFFUM,

In the Clerk's Office of tristrict Court of the District of New Hampshire.

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PREFACE.

I HAVE been gleaning through the fields of poetry and sentiment. I have gathered golden cars from sheafs of thought and feeling, and caught the choicest notes of songster and philosopher and having twined them in a bright wreath, I send it forth upon its mission to charm the eye and heart of Beauty. Go forth, little book! Wherever young hearts are bounding, wherever Hope has reared a temple, be thou found. thou the medium through which the lover woes his lady, a bright link in Friendship's chain, a sweet remembrancer of other days, a cheering index to the Future. Go forth, my little book! and blessings attend thee! WORCESTER, 1848.

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