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POEMS

NARRATIVE AND LYRICAL.

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.

GLASGOW:

PRINTED BY JAMES HEDDERWICK AND SON

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

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