Excerpt from The Retired Lieutenant and the Battle of Loncarty, Vol. 1 of 2: Poems

Although, in recently publishing a sudden ebullition of poetical colere, I was induced to give a brief catalogue of my literary compositions, being here presenting myself, not as a disputant on, but a professor of, the poetic art, it appears necessary that I should again take the liberty of introducing myself to the public as a stranger, which I beg leave so far to do, as respectfully to state, that, instigated by believing I might be able to add something to the ornamental literature of my country, at a very early age I began to write, and have from time to time composed a variety of works: but the situation in life in which fortune thought fit to place me being somewhat remote from the literary world, and the ways I have tried to get to it full of obstructions, I have never, hitherto, found myself of a temper to persevere in endeavouring to make my way through them. The time, however, is at length arrived when duty to myself binds me to delay no longer in trying my best to get some of my works placed before the public, and that I now do in this first volume of my poems.

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