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Title: Revised Edition of Poems

Author: William Wright

Release Date: January 12, 2009 [eBook #27781]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REVISED EDITION OF POEMS***

Transcribed from the 1891 John Overend edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

REVISED
EDITION OF POEMS

BY
Bill o'th' Hoylus End.

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PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.

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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
JOHN OVEREND, COOK LANE, KEIGHLEY.
1891.

[Picture: Picture of Bill o' the Hoylus End]

PREFACE

The Author respectfully submits to the general public of his native town
and district, this volume of poems, containing some of the chief results
of his musings for the past thirty years. He hopes that the volume,
which is in reality the production of a life-time, will in many ways be
deemed worthy of the kind and courteous approbation of his numerous
patrons and friends, as well as the indulgence of literary critics.

In launching forth the work, the Author begs to tender to his patrons and
the public generally, his most sincere and hearty thanks for the
assistance they have ever rendered him so as to enable him to acquire the
necessary leisure for the cultivation of his muse. The result now
achieved is not the comprehensive collection of the efforts of the
author, but it may he taken as a selection and a representation of his
more generally interesting productions from time to time.

Various reasons have operated in the time of the publication and the
curtailment of this volume; but it is now submitted with every respect to
the public for their perusal. Many of his poems, which are not found in
the present volume, the author trusts will be deemed worthy of being
treasured in the scrap books of hi