Excerpt from Pleasant Words: Containing a Choice Selection of Original Poems This volume is designed to encourage the higher sentiments of the soul in ex pression conveying, as it may, that tenderness of thought so peculiarly adapt ed to the wants of the human heart. Many of the pieces, which have been previously published in Rochester, New burgh, Syracuse, and Auburn, as well as other places, were not written for the press-but merely to satisfy the inward promptings of the heart which called clearly for expression and, only in obey ing came that peace so sweet and price less. That this volume may meet the kindly notice and approbation of some of the intelligent of our land, making the hours of its perusal pass pleasantly and profit ably, is the earnest wishes of the author, and through it will be obtained the high est earthly happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.