Excerpt from A Priest's Poems, Vol. 1 of 2

The verses gathered into this Volume were written in former years at various intervals. Through the benevolence of the kindest of Editors, some of them have appeared from time to time in the Irish Monthly. Some again, first printed so long ago as 1873, made a little Book of Poems, translated and original, in honour of Our Lady. This has long been out of print, but is to be found now in Part II.

Having received a suggestion and authorization from the esteemed brother in St. Philip to whose care and keeping our Cardinal Newman left his correspondence, the Translator now feels at liberty to quote the generous words with which the Cardinal accepted a copy of the May Chaplet and other Poems.

"The Oratory, April 22, 1873.

"...I thank you very much for the volume of poems which you have been so kind as to send me. I mean it for a high compliment, and I hope you will take as such, if I say they read so easily and naturally that I should never take them for translations. Those which are original at the end of the volume, fluent as they are, do not run more fluently than those which you have taken from Father Philpin..."

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