PREFACE. This little Volume of Original and Selected Poems is an attempt to supply a want often felt by persons engaged in educational pursuits, viz., a manual of verses of an unexceptional moral tendency, suitable for recitation by boys or girls of twelve or thirteen years of age. The selected pieces, the compiler hopes will speak for themselves; for the others composed in the rare leisure moments of a laborious life, he must request the kind consideration of all persons engaged in the work of education. Mackworth, near Derby, ག་ |