Excerpt from Poems: Sacred and Secular: Written Chiefly at Sea, Within the Last Half-CenturyThe following volume of Poems consists of Three distinct Parts or Divisions.Part First was published separately in Sydney in the year 1826, under the title of "Aurora Australis, or Specimens of Sacred Poetry for the Colonists of Australia." The poems comprised in the little volume were almost wholly written at sea, on the Author's second voyage to Australia, and they have long been out of print. Kind, but perhaps too indulgent, friends have often since urged their republication, and the Author has at length been induced to comply with their request - adding the Second and Third Parts to the original collection - that the volume, as it now appears, may serve as a memorial of himself, when he shall have passed away, as he must do erelong in the course of nature, from this transitory scene of things.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.