Rhymes in Council: Aphorisms Versified (Classic Reprint)
(In the eighty-first year of my age, I write these Verses ...)
In the eighty-first year of my age, I write these Verses ;they are the out-come of knowledge, based on experience, and matured by thought: the proceeds of a long life. A few dotted down reflections have grown into aB ook. I bequeath them as a Legacy to my kind with humility, but with faith, hope, trust, and love. May they, by the aid and blessing of God, bear fruit! Since they were written, while they were passing through the press, the partner of my pilgrimage, the participator in all my labours and cares, my companion, friend, counsellor, and wife, during fifty-six years, has been removed from earth and from me, from many friends who dearly loved her, and from a public Jby whom she was largely appreciated since the publication of her first Book (followed by, I think, two hundred and fifty Books )in the far-off year 1828. These verses are hardly less hers than mine. If I have striven in humble, but fervent and prayerful, hope to inculcate rectitude, goodness, love, sympathy, gentle and generous thinking, humanity, patience, virtue, and piety. Faith, Hope, and Charity my work was suggested, encouraged, sustained I will reverently add, inspired by her. This Book, therefore, although written by me, I hope may be regarded as aM onument to herM
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