DEDICATED
TO
MATILDA M. HAYS.
"Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous. Cold and
lifeless, because they do not represent our life. The only gift is a
portion of thyself. Therefore let the farmer give his corn; the
miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; and
the poet, his poems."—Emerson's Essays.
A.A.P.
May, 1858. |