Page:The pleasures of friendship; a poems in two parts (IA pleasuresoffrien00rowd).pdf/16

x which these humble pages shrink with diffidence and dismay. The Author feels most sensibly how inadequate her talents are to do justice to a subject, which embraces all the delicate springs of the heart, and all the exquisite modifications of the soul. She has only ventured to cull a few flowers from a soil, rich in variegated beauties; while she leaves to a more judicious taste and nicer judgment, the selection of richer matter for a theme, as inexhaustible in examples, as it must be interesting to every feeling and generous bosom.

She is well aware that the explanations contained