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ERRATA AND CORRECTIONS.

FIRST VOLUME.

Page 82. 12th line from top, for "Usurpign," read " Usurping."

82. 16th line, for “ mites," read " times."

101. 8th, and 9th, for " or," read " nor."

162. 2d Stanza; 4th line, for "His singing-bird," read "This

singing bird."

170. first line, for " though," read " thou."

SECOND VOLUME.

Page 26. last line, for " slacky," read " slackly."

173. 4th line from bottom, for " And pleas'd," read " Am pleased."

231. 1st line, for "that," read " which."

250. The title, for " of the," read " to the."

250. 5th line from bot. for "would extend," read " should extend."

308. 2nd Stanza, for, "of his ill gotten,” read "with this ill gotten."

319. 8th line from bot. for " the person," read " the persons.”

POEMS

REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD.

VOL. I.

B

I.

My heart leaps up when I behold
A Rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a Man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

в 2 II.

TO A BUTTERFLY.

STAY near me do not take thy flight!

A little longer stay in sight!

Much converse do I find in Thee,

Historian of my Infancy!

Float near me; do not yet depart!

Dead times revive in thee :

Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art!

A solemn image to my heart,

My Father's Family!

Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,

The time, when in our childish plays,

My Sister Emmeline and I

Together chased the Butterfly!

A very hunter did I rush

Upon the prey:-with leaps and springs I followed on from brake to bush;

But She, God love her! feared to brush The dust from off its wings.

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