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giving this little volume to the public, the author has a very pleasing task to fulfil in the assurance of the vivid sense she entertains of the honour conferred upon her by the patronage which has ushered her poems into the world, in a manner at once so brilliant and so flattering. For the support which she has met with in the Upper Provinces (which have added upwards of three hundred names to the accompanying list of subscribers) she feels most deeply indebted; the success is unparallelled in the annals of Oriental Literature, and demands her warmest thanks.

The author feels very proud of the welcome which her book has received in a land where she expected to find strangers, but where she has met with so many persons of taste and talent by whom the former productions of her