Excerpt from Heart Melodies of an Aged Pilgrim He regrets that he is unable to give any indica tion to the authorship of the lines given on page 132 To a Mother on the Death of her First-born Son They are of such a date as to make it certain that he has not been infringing any one's copyright; and their merit is such as cannot fail to make them acceptable to the readers of what might prove an otherwise disappointing volume. They have been inserted here mainly as a specinien and record of an unwonted feat of memory on the part of an affectionate sister, such as he believes is not often paralleled. B. 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.