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are two statements to be made in regard to this volume. First: many of the poems have been previously published in various magazines, though they are now for the first time collected. Second: all the poems are intended to be dramatic in their character; and, being the utterances of historical or purely fictitious personages, are not to be understood as expressing the opinions or sentiments of the Author.