Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY BARNARD SHIPP, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District C. SHERMAN, PRINTER, 19 St. James Street. PREFACE. THOUGH the Poems contained in this volume have been composed for several years, yet no attempt to revise them was made until the resolution to publish had been formed; when circumstances did not permit that attention to them which their deficiencies require; and when time and events, apparently propitious, do not admit of the delaying of the publication, without the loss of that interest which the Poems may derive from the recollections of the past, the developments of the present, and the anticipations of the future. Extracts from "Rottoc's General History," &c., varied from the originals no more than was necessary to put them into the form of Notes, have been annexed at the end of the text, in order to illustrate the Poems. Philadelphia, August 9th, 1848. |