A VISION OF FAIR SPIRITS,

AND OTHER POEMS.

BY

JOHN GRAHAM,

OF WADHAM COLLEGE.

LONDON:

T. AND W. BOONE, 29, NEW BOND STREET;

AND

J. VINCENT, OXFORD.

MDCCCXXXIV.

PREFACE.

SOME apology may be deemed necessary for the first of these Poems, inasmuch as it contains neither any con

nected story, moral, nor, in short, any of the usual requisites for a poem. Like an antique and broken bas-relief awkwardly arranged by the hand of some unskilful workman, it exhibits scarcely any traces of the original design : would that I could carry the resemblance farther, and say, that, though disunited, it was beautiful in mutilation, and atoned, by the indestructible beauty of its parts, for its want of regularity as a whole. But perhaps I am too bold in comparing it to an antique, although broken; and