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 Long will these poems of truthful affection and earnest appeal linger on the heart's memory of all who knew and loved their author. To those who had not that privilege, they will yet possess the charm of poetic beauty, wrought from the suggestive influences of the outward world upon the Poet's inmost soul. The interest of moral feeling also pervades these verses, in their revealings of the depths of kindliness and grateful attachment that blended with the high intellectual powers of L. E. L.