AUNT MARY'S POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECT, FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS. Second Edition. READING: T. BARCHAM, BROAD STREET. HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. MDCCCLIV. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The very great demand which has been made for a certain little "Collection of Poetry for Young Persons," lately out of print, has induced the compiler to send out another edition in a more popular form, with considerable additions, both original and select. She begs to acknowledge her obligations to several friends for their kind contributions, and has availed herself to a considerable extent of the very suitable productions of Mary Howitt, Mrs. Hemans, and several other popular poets of the present day, as well as others of older date. AUNT MARY'S POETRY. THE EXISTENCE OF A GOD EVIDENT. SEE here, I hold a Bible in my hand, and you see the cover, the leaves, the letters, and the words; but you do not see the writers, the printer, the letter-founder, the ink-maker, the paper-maker, nor the binder; you never did see them; you never will see them; and yet there is not one of you that will think of disputing or denying the being of these men. I go farther, I affirm that you see the very minds of these men in seeing this book; and you feel yourselves obliged to allow that they had skill, contrivance, design, memory, fancy, reason. In the same manner if you see a picture, you judge there was a painter of it; if you see a house, you judge there was a builder of it; if you see one room contrived for this purpose, another for that, a door to enter, a window to admit light, a chimney to hold fire, you conclude the builder was a person of skill and forecast who formed the house with a view to the accommodation of its inhabitants. In this manner examine the world, and pity the man, who, when he sees the sign B |