Excerpt from Glendalloch, and Other Poems I mix well aware of the wide distinction between a poet, and a maker of verses. A young gentleman, just entering into the printing business, had asked me, once and again, to give him an occasion of showing the public his progress in the typographic art, and I have, at length, weakly, though not unwillingly, complied with his request. I gave him the following pieces, connected with past events, some by pleasant, but most of them by painful associations. Yet, thanks be to Him who has made us of such a nature, that past pleasures still live in memory, and that time seldom fails to soften the pains we have snfiered, into a pensive, but not unpleasing remembrance. Thus are we disposed to make the best of this passable life, and when the hour of parting arrives, to bid the world good night. I dedicate this little volume to my Wife, my Sisters, and my Children. To the last of whom I shall not hesitate to recommend the art of versifying, as, at all periods of life, an amiable, and even useful recreation; although, except in some rare instances, a painful, precarious, and very profitless vocation. 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.