Excerpt from By the Sea, and Other Poems

"This Our Brother" and two or three of the sonnets in the first part, and all the second part of this book, did not appear in the first edition. The rest, with here and there some trifling change, stands as before.

I cannot pass this opportunity without expressing my happiness and surprise at finding myself in a second edition within so brief a time. The surprise is due, not to any want of confidence in what I have written, keenly as my own private criticism has often thrust at me, but to the discovery that I was wrong in thinking (as I did when the first edition was issued) that the poet whose themes are such as the passion of my life has set for my singing would have to rest content with the praise of his own conscience alone. To my great joy that has not been so, and these poems, to whose theme of hope for the future of the world's poor and oppressed I have given not only my song but the daily work of my life, have received a welcome far beyond expectation.

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