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Excerpt from Minstrelsey of Edmund the Wanderer: Collected by His Early Companion, and Intimate Friend, Lieutenant Spence, of the United States Navy
Either from the injudicious management of those editori ally concerned Ih posthumous publications, or from causes but remotely connected with the merit of the performances, the memory Of but few has been benefited by such produc tions. H ow far these pensive respirations _oi his lyre may entitle my friend to the dignified and honour able appellation Of poet, time and impartial criticism will determine. They are, how ever, but equivocal pretensions to that too frequently profaned, and illy bestowed epithet, compared with the more elaborate productions of his muse, which I intend to offer, hereafter, to the public.
It is unnecessary, at this time, to enter into a minute bio graphical account Of my deceased friend. In the preface Of a poem, now under my inspection, entitled the Siege of Tripoli, I shall furnish a copious and more satisfactory delineation of his life. At present, it will be sufficient to remark that he was a native of the United States; that his profession was that Of a soldier; that his life was wildly de sultory, and, from peculiar allotment, chequered with that variety Of interesting vicissitudes, and di?luent occurrences, which we frequently find incidental to the career of a mili tary man, embarking, at an early period Of youth, on the capricious ocean of life, and, like the bark in its ?uctuating element, destined through its disastrous voyage to buffet the rebelling billows and the adverse gale of fortune.
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