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SHORT POEMS:

OF SACRED TRAVEL, MISCELLANEOUS,

AND

"IN MEMORIAM."

BY

WILLIAM GRIFFITHS, M.A.,

VICAR (DESIGNATE) OF S. NICOLAS', BIRMINGHAM.

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LONDON:

PROVOST & Co., SUCCESSORS TO A. W. BENNETT,

5, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT.

1869.

280. m. 340.

LONDON:

P. BARRETT AND SONS, PRINTERS,

MARK LANE.

INTRODUCTION.

THE verses contained in the first part of this book were written during a journey and visit to Sinai and Palestine. The route pursued lay by Gibraltar, and followed the northern coast of the Mediterranean as far as Naples; a few

being made by the way. Alexandria and Cairo, it

Then, having crossed to pauses

proceeded by Suez and

Wâdy Taiyibeh to Jebel Mûsa, and thence over the Tîh to Gaza; afterwards winding about in the Holy Land until it had reached Beyrout. One or two of the Desert Sonnets, however, are here presented in an order slightly different from that of their birth; for the sake of a better grouping of those which bear on the ancient "Mounts of God.'

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The verses contained in the second part are of an earlier date; some at the beginning of the series being almost a quarter of a century older. A few

have been in print before.

The verses

"In Memoriam" have been in private

circulation already, and have in that way somewhat overpassed the bounds within which it had been intended to confine them. Of the sixth and longest of them only the closing paragraphs are here reproduced.

The whole collection (such as it is) is now put into print, with a hope of its somewhat assisting the Funds of the "Free and Open" Church of S. Nicolas, Birmingham; which in making its first start among a very poor people, and in spite of the great generosity of a few of its friends, is not yet in a way to think any scorn of even the smallest help that can be given. If any good Christian, who reads this, has money (little or much) to spare, and is moved and minded to make a good use of it, the writer would be very thankful to serve as his almoner. The district contains a population of 6,000, and is greatly in need of Schools.

W. G.

Colmore Terrace, Summer Lane,

Birmingham.

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