A Retrospect
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Golden Words




DEDICATION


TO MATILDA M. HAYS.

"Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous. Cold and lifeless,
because they do not represent our life. The only gift is a portion of
thyself. Therefore let the farmer give his corn; the miner, a gem; the
sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; and the poet, his
poem."--Emerson's Essays.

A. A. P.

May, 1858




AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES DICKENS


In the spring of the year 1853, I observed, as conductor of the weekly
journal Household Words, a short poem among the proffered contributions,