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Excerpt from Sordello, Strafford, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
I preserve, in order to supplement it, the foregoing preface. I had thought, when compelled to include inmy collected works the poem to which it refers, that the honest course would be to reprint, and leave mere literary errors unaltered. Twenty years' endurance of an eyesore seems more than sufficient: my faults remain duly recorded against me, and I claim permission to somewhat diminish these, so far as style is concerned, in the present and final edition where Pauline must needs, first of my performances, confront the reader. I have simply removed solecisms, mended the metre a little, and endeavoured to strengthen the phraseology experience helping, in some degree, the helplessness of juvenile haste and heat in their untried adventure long ago.
The poems that follow are again, as before, printed in chronological order; but only so far as proves com patible with the prescribed size of each volume, which necessitates an occasional change in the distribution of its contents. Every date is subjoined as before.
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