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UNIVERSITY PRESS:

WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDGE.

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

HE brief tragedy of poor David Gray, as unveiled in this volume, cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every unhardened reader. The poems of this ill-fated and winsome young Scotchman, heart-brother of Robert Burns, are marked by rare tenderness and sincerity, and by that fascinating felicity of verbal touch which is one of the choicest characteristics of true genius. Such a pure and pathetic story, such lucid and breathing poetry as we have here, are charged with a blessed ministry for a coarse and bustling age, for a reckless utilitarian people. The feelings of love, pity, and grief this little book is calculated to awaken will exert a salutary influence, softening the heart, nourishing human sympathy and poetic sentiment. And the publishers are confident that every appreciative reader of the volume,

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