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Show 96 . but the gift he left The hoary traveller went Jus way, behind, 1 ~ t work on that high-born Hath had Its pure ana per ec maiden's mind, 'd of sin to the And she hath turned from the pn e lowliness of truth, d · its beautiful And given her human 1l eal· t to Go m hour of youth ! And she hath left the gray, o Jd halls where an evil faith had power, ' . d ' I k . hts of her fathers \ram, an t.le The court Y ntg aidens of her bower ; And shme hath gone t o the Vaudois vales, by lordly feet untrod' . I . h Where the poor an d n eeuy of earth are nc ' Ill t e perfect Jove of God! NOTE . In compliance with the urgeut rCf]IICSl of a lnrgc number of the admirers of 'Vhiuicr, this volume was issued from the press, with very little time for rcl'lsion, while the author was absent from lloston. Dy a strange 0\'Crs ight, the following art icles were omitted. As soon as the work appeared, howc1'er, the omission was at once disco,•ered, and they are here inserted, that the \'olume may not disappoint its readers. PUBLISHER. TnE cdito1· of the \Vestern l\Icsscngct·, published in Louis\·illc, Kentucky, Deeemher, 1836, copies the following poem, and says, 'It is so full of fire and spirit, so original, so picturesque, that it must give plca!:iure to every reader, The five \'Crses beginning u Shall our New England,' arc equal to almost auy thing in Camp· belL Though no friends of abolitionism, we like good poetry on any and every subject." • LINES Written on the passage of .111r. Pinckney's R esolutions, in the House of R epresentatives, and of M1·. Calhoun's 'Bill of Abominations,' in tlte Senate of tlte United States. Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit Of the true-hearted and the unshac kled gone 1 Sons of old freemen, do we but inherit Their names alone ! |