PREFACE.
I have but a word to offer in the way of a preface. I would only ask a generous public to regard this volume more as a promise than a performance,—more as a prophecy than a fulfilment. To the critic I would only whisper, that this collection is not nearly as large as it might have been; and that I am confident he would overlook the bad verse he may find in it, could he know how much worse poetry has been left out.
G. G.
