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viii offered him by Hiram Rich of Gloucester, Massachusetts, with as deep a pleasure in their new touch."

Probably the author would have made slight revisions in some of the unpublished poems, if this book had been compiled during his lifetime; but the publisher has been at special pains to secure accurate copies of the manuscripts, and has also sought to make the volume a fit receptacle for the poet's work.