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Excerpt from Gillian: And Other PoemsIT is rare that a work is ever issued from the press without some prefatory remarks frdm the author. Poetry, however, seldom needs a preface, save when it aims to be biographical, or the subject be a nation's epic. But there is one circum stance which occurred on the publication of my former poem, Los Arcos, a Spanish Carlist Romaunt, which induces me now to explain away an erroneous idea then entertained. The Athenaeum, when courteously reviewing that production, took occasion to remark that it was evi dently written with a political intention - an idea, enter tained I presume from the fact that the noble Viscount to whom it was dedicated (lord Ranelagh), and the author of the Notes which illustrated that work (lieutenant Merry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.