Excerpt from College Poems
With many misgivings, this little Volume is now presented, not so much to the public as to the friends who have prevailed on me to publish it. Written hurriedly amid the exacting duties of College life, it can scarcely be free from faults and imperfections. Poetry has been to me more a love than a study. When I have thought that its spirit might have been stirring within me, in the woods, by the stream, in the lecture-room, or elsewhere, I have there pencilled the fancy in my memorandum; and in this way, my bantling has sprung into existence. I would, therefore, say to the reader.
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