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Reb. July 10, 1837.

THE HEIR OF FOIZ.

"I, a desolate branch,

"Left scattered in the high-way of the world,

"Trod under foot, that might have been a column

"Mainly supporting our demolished house."

Massenger. The Fatal Dowry,

OR,

THE HEIR OF FOIZ:

A TRAGEDY.

WITH

OTHER POEMS.

BY THE

REV. CHARLES SWAN,

LATE OF CATHARINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. H. BURN, MAIDEN LANE,

COVENT GARDEN.

MDCCCXXIII.

6

18462.17.9

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

W. M'Dowall, Printer, Pemberton Row, Gough Square.

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PREFACE.

THE design, (I hope a laudable one), with which I entered on the present "Sketch" was an attempt to follow in the footsteps of our elder dramatists. The depths of that darkness which for a length of time overwhelmed the brilliant poetry of a past day, are happily disclosed in this: and unlike the fabled lamp, which, burning splendidly amid sepulchral glooms, became extinguished on the admittance of light and air-it shines brighter for the test. We have been long chilled by the frosty glitter of a winter's day; and however gayly it might sparkle to the eye, it threw no animating warmth upon the heart. We have indeed, been too long "Women's poets," to adopt an idea from Ben Jonson, who “must flow, and

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