MACMILLAN AND CO. CAMBRIDGE; AND 23 HENRIETTA-STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. Dublin: WILLIAM ROBERTSON. Edinburgh: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS. Glasgow: JAMES MACLEHOSE. Oxford: J. H. AND JAS. PARKER. AND OTHER POEMS. BY JAMES HEDDERWICK. Cambridge: MACMILLAN AND CO. AND 23 HENRIETTA - STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. 1859. 280.2304. PREFACE. THE aspect of moral life, like the face of nature, is subject to perspective laws: the scene changes with the position of the observer. While Youth is mounting the sunny side of the hill, Middle Life stands at the apex, and Age is descending among the shadows beyond. To each belongs a different sphere of view, with its appropriate objects of incident and reflection. Such is the experience of every man who lives to realise the facts of existence; and the title of the following 'LAYS,' together with something of their tendency, is thus explained. Dealing with many themes, and briefly with each, it was still the Author's purpose that A |