Eucharis: A Poem (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Eucharis: A Poem

That his present Poem is open to grave miscon structions, which nothing but an explanatory pre face can guard against. Much against his inclina tion, therefore, (having in view the impropriety of seeming to criticise his own work, ) he inserts these few lines to say that, whatever object he may have had in view, he certainly did not write this Poem with the idea of advocating indiscriminate abolition of all forms of marriage. He hopes, moreover, that as the Poem is entirely dramatic its catastrophe will be accepted as suflicient evi.

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