POEMS,

ON

RELIGIOUS, MORAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE

SUBJECTS.

BY

AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY.

"But is amusement all? Studions of song,
And yet ambitious not to sing in vain,
I would not trifle merely, tho' the world
Be loudest in their praise, who do no more."
COWPER'S TASK BOOK, 2d.

LONDON:

JAMES NISBET, BERNERS STREET.

MDCCC XXVII.

POEMS.

THE following Poems, with few exceptions, were composed abroad, merely as a recreation and amusement, at different periods, as circumstances transpired to suggest them, and without the most distant idea of their ever being brought before the Public: the Author has now been induced to publish them at the solicitation of his friends; being encouraged to cherish the fond hope, that the perusal of them may afford some degree of pleasure and edification to the candid Reader.

LONDON,