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LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

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TO

CONNOP THIRLWALL,

LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S,

THESE MEMORIALS OF MANY SCENES

ARE DEDICATED

BY

HIS GRATEFUL PUPIL AND ATTACHED FRIEND.

PREFACE.

ALFRED TENNYSON, my contemporary and friend, has enjoined some brother Poet

"To learn to write his random rhymes

Ere they be half-forgotten,

Nor add and alter many times

Till all be ripe and rotten "—

and, acting on the latter part of this advice (as I have done, perhaps too frequently, on the former), I republish with very little alteration the poems, whose composition was so pleasant a labour to me in travelling through, or sojourning in, the bright countries of the South of Europe, and which, under other titles, have already been offered to the sympathy of other wayfarers.

The "Memorials of a Tour in Greece were published ten years ago; and thus, though chargeable with the inaccuracies of an inexperienced writer, they were so far nearer the source of the classical associations of educated youth, and so far likely to be impregnate with a purer and stronger feeling of the worth and interest of that country and its history, than

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