ing thus hymned her chant from the far shadows it throws upon her imagination, those who have watched the tuning of inspiration by sorrow and struggle will easily conceive. The single poem of "Te Deum Laudamus," which will be found on a succeeding page, shows the port and mien of one whose walk in the highest fields of poetry would be that of inborn stateliness and fitness. The rhythm has an instinctive power and dignity, showing the key to which the mind is habitually toned, and the conception and management of the subject are full of originality and beauty. Those who read this and the other poems will have had a star named to them, for whose future place and shining they will look; and, in this first announcing of a light that is to be recognised and brighten hereafter, is to be found the main errand which the introducer would claim for the present volume.
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