POEMS, CHIEFLY RELIGIOUS. BY THE REV. H. F. LYTE, A. M. LONDON: JAMES NISBET, BERNERS STREET; AND W. MARSH, OXFORD STREET. MDCCCXXXIII. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD FARNHAM, &c. &c. &c. My dear Lord Farnham, This little volume was to have been inscribed to Lady Farnham. It was at her instance that it was sent to the press; and I was in the act of penning a little dedicatory tribute to her for its commencement, when intelligence reached me of the loss which your Lordship, myself, and the world at large, had sustained in her death. I must not attempt to describe my feelings on such an occasion. To know Lady Farnham, was to reverence and love her: and I knew her well.-This, however, is not the |