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 PREFACE

TO THE

SIXTH EDITION

WHEN a sixth Edition of these little Poems was lately called for, it was proposed to me to add such Sonnets, or other pieces, as I might have written since the publication of the fifth -- Of these, however, I had only a few; and on shewing them to a friend, of whose judgment I had an high opinion, he remarked that some of them, particularly "The Sleeping Woodman," and "The Return of the Nightingale," resembled in the subjects, and still more in the plaintive tone in which they are written, the greater part of those in the former Editions -- and that, perhaps, some of a more lively cast