(_To First Edition_)

To you, dear Wife--to whom beside so well?-- True Counsellor and tried, at every shift, I bring my "Book of Counsels:" let it tell Largeness of love by littleness of gift;

And take this growth of foreign skies from me, (A scholar's thanks for gentle help in toil,) Whose leaf, "though dark," like Milton's Hoemony, "Bears a bright golden flower, if not in this soil."

April 9, 1861.