Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier In these volumes, for the first time, a complete collection of my poetical writings has been made. While itie satisfactoryto knowthatthesescat tered children of my brain have found a home, I cannot but regret that I have been unable, by reason of illness, to give that attention to their revis ion mu arrangement, which respect for the opinions of others and my own afterthought and experience demand. 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.