YESTERDAY, TO-DAY,

AND

FOR EVER:

A Poem,

IN TWELVE BOOKS,

BY

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, M.A.

INCUMBENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, HAMPSTEAD,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF RIPON.

RIVINGTONS,
London, Orford, and Cambridge.
1866.

280.m. 72.

THE design of the following poem has been laid up in my heart for more than twenty years. Other claims however prevented me from seriously undertaking the work until little more than two years ago. But then the deep conviction, that those solemn events, to which the latter books of my poem relate, were already beginning to cast their prophetic lights and shadows on the world, constrained me to make the attempt. If it may please God to awaken any minds to deeper thought on things unseen and eternal, by this humble effort to combine some of the pictorial teaching supplied by His most holy Word, it will be the answer to many prayers.

E. H. B.

Hampstead, London,

September 7th, 1866.