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                           Hymns and Poems.


                                 _By
                            A. L. O. E._,

   _Author of "The Triumph over Midian," "Rescued from Egypt," "The
                  Shepherd of Bethlehem," &c., &c._

                               LONDON:
                 T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;
                       EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.
                                1868.




                               PREFACE


If there be any distinctive peculiarity in this little volume, it is
one that would naturally expose it to literary censure; the verses are
very unequal, some of the hymns are avowedly written for the very
poor. To admit rhymes for ragged children, needlewomen, and paupers
into a book of sacred song, may--in the o