[from Island Minstrelsy, 1839]

TO
HER ISLAND HOME
THE AUTHORESS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATES
THE FIRST AND SIMPLE EFFUSIONS
OF AN
ISLAND HEART.

St. Bride's Rectory, Isle of Man,
August, 1839.

Thoughts thrown together as the wild flowers grow-
The chance arrangement of a wandering will;
So on the lap of Poesy they lie,
Careless as wind-blown blossoms from the hill
Of old Parnassus.
Pass them kindly by.-SWAIN .