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poem which enters into the title of this volume, owes its existence to a recent opportunity of personal intercourse with that sect of Christians, who acknowledge Zinzendorff as their founder; and who, in their labors of self-denying benevolence, and their avoidance of the slight, yet bitter causes, of controversy, have well preserved that sacred test of discipleship, "to love one another."

Many of the poems, in the present collection, were suggested by the passing and common incidents of life. If, in their elements, there is a deficiency of the "wonderful and wild," it is hoped they will not be found destitute of that moral essence, which springs