Tm: songs and poems which follow were written without the remotest idea of making a book, and they are now presented to the public, in this form, with much doubt and misgiving. They are the simple record of feelings and fancies in common life, expressed with as much propriety and elegance as the author's time and taste permitted, and, as such, may possibly find their way to some hearts that love Nature even in her homelier aspects, and be welcome.