POEMS NARRATIVE AND LYRICAL, BY WILLIAM MOTHER THEC GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON, TRONGATE; OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH; LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, LONDON. MDCCCXXXII 159. TO WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq. MY DEAR KENNEDY, At the suggestion of some mutual friends, I have been induced to collect these stray verses of mine into a volume, which I have now the pleasure of dedicating to you, as a memorial of earlier days, and of my unaltered feelings of friendship and esteem for you. I have been told that several of the pieces, in order to be intelligible to the general reader, required the aid of notes. To the critical opinion of others, I am al ways inclined to defer; but to have loaded a volume |