POEMS OF RELIGIOUS SORROW, "Tis Life whereof our nerves are scant, "I am come that they might have life, and BOSTON AND NEW YORK 1886 PUBLISHERS' NOTE. THE present edition of this book is a reissue of that published in 1866, which was enlarged from a previous edition. The compiler in his brief preface then stated: "It is necessary to say that the titles given to some of the pieces are not those of the authors, and that, having a practical object in view, I have often taken only so much of a poem as answered my purpose. But in no instance have the words of an author been altered, though there are phrases here and there which I do not approve." |