Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Early Aspirations: A Private Collection of Poems
This little collection of poems is made with a twofold purpose: one being to gather together the occasional thoughts, mainly of earlier years, to preserve for my own gratification; the other, that I may be enabled to present to my friends a private testimonial of esteem. It is to be hoped they may not prove an in?iction instead of a pleasure.
They stand in the order in which they were written, and probably that is the best form in which to place such fugitive efforts; while, at the same time, it preserves, in a measure, the line of my own thought and experience.
Before receiving the printer's benediction, some wild branches have been pruned off, and some sprigs of later thought have been added. I am still conscious of their defects, but they are the best that I can offer from the limited time and opportunities I have been able to command. I may add that nothing would give me more sincere delight than to have found the way to enrich them by a higher culture, a larger knowledge, and a deeper re?ection. But sharp experience has taught me that the duties and necessities of life build stern limitations, and that the hard and exhausting struggle for existence and advancement soon clips the wings of imagination and makes short work with poetical dreaming. But the little accomplished I now venture to send forth on private rambles, knowing that, from my friends, their shortcomings will be tenderly received, and whatever merit they may possess will be fully accorded.
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