Australia: With Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Australia: With Other Poems

My Dear Father,

When I inscribed to you the former edition of these Poems, my motive was, I fear, a selfish one. In that anxiety which attends an author on his first public appearance, it was natural that I should seek to place my little volume under the protection of one from whom I had been taught, by a long course of experiences, to expect indulgence for its failings, and a partial appreciation of its merits. I dedicate to you the present edition in a purer and better feeling. The book has passed through its ordeal, and the public favour which has attended it has rendered it no longer necessary that it should look for a protector. To you, from whom it sought shelter in its fears, it returns in its triumph. To you belong the first fruits of those talents which, whatever their nature and extent, were fostered by your kindness, and called into action by your encouragement.

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