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Excerpt from Voices From the Hills, Brooks and Woodlands: And Other Miscellaneous Poems
From my early years I have possessed a love for and derived a joy from poetry. I have enjoyed and lingered over its eloquence, and entered into and lived in its expressed emotions and depths of its feeling; and again and again has the longing come to me that 1 might write something of the emotions which stirred within me. I have to thank the friendly patience and the kind forbear ance with which the proprietors of me Leicester Guardian, Messrs. Thornley Waddington, dealt with my first attempts to put my thoughts and feelings into intelligible poetic phrase. Let me here acknowledge their kind encouragement. It is my earnest and deep desire that these, my first attempts at poetry, may bring some joy to, or disperse the clouds from the path of some of life's wayfarers. If, happily, this my hope shall be accomplished, I shall rest contented that my efforts have neither been useless nor vain, and I.
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