Excerpt from Leisure Moments

While some of these poems have been published previously, the majority of them, though written at intervals extending over a period of many years, appear now for the first time. A number of them, being very early efforts, date back nearly as far as the childhood of the author, by whom only as so many landmarks and reminiscences of the "dead past" are they considered worthy of preservation.

Urged by the partial opinions of kind friends, the writer has been induced, whatever be the merits or defects of these fugitive offspring of some of her "Leisure Moments" (which like strayed sheep have been so long scattered), to gather them now into one fold, or volume.

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