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REFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive,. d widely effective mode of saying things, and nce its importance"-Matthew Arnold. To a mind brooding on the silent beauty exhibited the varied phenomena of nature, to an intellect ving deep into the mysteries that lie in the inmost orners of life, to a soul soaring high into ethereal egions of religion and philosophy, to a spirit seeking rene rest in moral sanctity and Divine noth- grace, ig appears so permanently beautiful, so certainly im-. >ressive and effective as the study of a fine piece of poetry. Not only does a fine poem delight us by presenting a faithful picture of nature's charms and beauties but it also impresses us with the immediate presence of a benign principle that manifests itself in all that is bright and beautiful. While it thus kindles in man the thought about a supreme being of un- limited love and kindness, it calls forth also from him ove and sympathy for all animate beings which, like every one of us, pursue certain lines of development and fulfil certain purposes in life each in its way. is this love, this sympathy that marks him out as superior to lower animal kingdom, it is this special quality that refines and ennobles his entire being..> It