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Title: The Golden Treasury
Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
Author: Various
Release Date: September 9, 2006 [EBook #19221]
Language: English
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THE GOLDEN TREASURY
Of the best Songs and Lyrical Pieces
In the English Language
Selected by Francis Turner Palgrave
Illustrated by A. Pearse
London and Glasgow
Collins' Clear-Type Press
DEDICATION
To
ALFRED TENNYSON
POET LAUREATE.
This book in its progress has recalled often to my memory a man with whose friendship we were once honoured, to whom no region of English literature was unfamiliar, and who, whilst rich in all the noble gifts of nature, was most eminently distinguished by the noblest and the rarest,--just judgment and high-hearted patriotism. It would have been hence a peculiar pleasure and pride to dedicate what I have endeavoured to make a true national Anthology of three centuries to Henry Hallam. But he is beyond the reach of any human tokens of love and reverence; and I desire therefore to place before it a name united with his by associations which, whilst Poetry retains her hold on the minds