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Title: The Minstrel
A Collection of Poems

Author: Lennox Amott

Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24312]

Language: English

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THE MINSTREL:

_A COLLECTION OF POEMS_

BY

LENNOX AMOTT.

Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes
Fulmina amem silvasque inglorius....

O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi
Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra!

--_Virgil._

LEWES: FARNCOMBE & CO.

1883.

LEWES:

FARNCOMBE AND CO.,

PRINTERS.

TO ONE, WHO AT ONCE COMBINES
TRUE SENSE WITH TRUE HONOUR,
UNSELFISH PRINCIPLES WITH UNSELFISH FRIENDSHIP,
WHOSE SPECIAL PROVINCE IS
TO SYMPATHIZE AND TRUST,
WHOSE ONLY FAULT IS HIS READY CONFIDENCE
IN NATURES
TOO UNLIKE HIS OWN,
TO

=Harold Matthews=

THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, AS A JUST TRIBUTE
OF THAT ESTEEM, WHICH ALONE IS THE REAL SOURCE
OF ALL FRIENDSHIP,
BY HIM WHO HAS VALUED HIS SOCIETY IN THE PAST,
AND HOPES HE MAY LONG ENJOY
IT IN THE FUTURE.

[Illustration: HW: Lennox Amott]

_PREFACE._

I am fully aware of the fact that the present volume is but an
intrusion at the best; however