Excerpt from Poetical Essays

The idea of being soon forgotten has been very distasteful to many minds in every age of the world's history, and has prompted numberless efforts to achieve something to assert individuality, and prolong remembrance.

Strongly sympathising with this feeling I have written these few Essays, indulging a hope that some who read them may agree with the sentiments and aspirations expressed, and that the spiritual affinity which similarity of judgment implies, may secure for the Author a kindly recollection.

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