Poems, &C &C

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This Volume, which the Editor now respect-fully presents to her kind Subscribers in particular, and to the Public in general, contains very nearly the whole of what she could collect from amongst the papers of her deceased Aunt, in any degree fit for publication, and more perhaps than by choice Hie would have published, was (he not persuaded that this small Collection will fall into the hands of few readers, but such as have patronized and promoted her undertaking through regard to the memory of the amiable Author. All, to whom the virtues of her character were known, will be candidly disposed to excuse any trivial errors in her composition. She never held herself up as a writer: when (lie reported to her pen, it was either to amuse a leisure hour, to gratify an absent friend, or for the sublimer purpose of pouring out her heart in praises and thanksgivings to her God.

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