Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Flowers: Their Moral, Language, and Poetry
Which to the cultivated intellect May give delight, and all the heart improve.
The Editor has chosen out the quotations which enrich this volume from a vast accumulation of ?oral poetry the transcription of which has pleasantly em ployed his leisure time for many years past; the work was, and is, to him truly, a labour of love and he trusts that any errors of taste and judgment, which a learned and critical reader may detect in the selection now given to the public, and the observations with which they are connected, will be pardoned for the sake of the enthusiastic devotion which has prompted him to give so much attention to the subject. Many poems, which he would fain have included, want of space has obliged him to omit, and the several chap ters are much less comprehensive than he could have wished, but he consoles himself with the hope of meeting his readers again, and yet again, and having much pleasant gossip with them upon Flowers and other kindred subjects. For his own idle rhymes, of which he has, perhaps, in the following pages given more than a su?iciency, he can only offer this excuse, - the temptation to perpetrate them was in many cases too strong to be resisted, and so, he wrote because he was i' the vein. All rhymesters are egotists, and he is free to confess that this is one of the sins that does most easily and irresistibly beset him.
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