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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Ray Palmer The author takes leave to add that his time and strength, for more than forty years, have been almost unremittingly devoted to the absorbing duties of a Christian minister, and for more than three-fourths of this period to the manifold labors of a city Pastor. Poetry, instead of filling any prominent place in the programme of his life, has been only the occupation of the few occasronal moments that could be redeemed from severer, and generally very prosaic, forms of work. It has, in this way, afforded him not a little pleasure and refreshment. But what has been written under such disadvantages must needs claim some indulgence, as compared with what, in the case of others, has been the fruit of ample literary leisure. He will be content if these leaves gathered from the wayside of life, together with those that have now been added, shall prove acceptable and useful to the lovers of pure thoughts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.