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Every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold
of my covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make
them joyful in my house of prayer.

Holy Scriptures.

GLASGOW:

PRINTED BY G. RICHARDSON, 35, MILLER STREET.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following pages contain all the poetical compositions of the author, that, in his present mood of mind, he considers worthy of being submitted to the notice of the reader. The most of them have been repeatedly before the public, and have already had their modicum of approbation. All of them, however, have been carefully revised, some of them, he flatters himself, considerably improved. Be this as it may, he has so far had his reward. The composing of them soothed the toils and softened the trials of his youth, the revising of them has contributed to lighten some weary hours of approaching old age darkened with clouds of irremediable sorrow. To the gentlemen, not numerous but highly respectable, by whose patronage he has been enabled to print this edition, especially for the manner in which that patronage has been bestowed, he returns his best thanks. Their kindness has been to his failing spirit like the tranquil beam of the purple evening, shining out upon the closing shadows of a dark and cloudy day.

GLASGOW, Dec., 1838.

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