Select Poems and Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

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To the many friends who, time and again, have requested me to write and publish with my small collection of poems, an autobiography, I most respectfully subscribe such particulars as will serve, at least for outlines of a not very note-worthy pilgrimage. I feel assured that those who know me best, will exercise unlimited charity in order to smooth down many imperfections which doubtless will appear in this, my humble effort to place before them a few select poems, written not only in the dark, but under many other unfavorable circumstances, some of which I shall endeavor to make clear by the following briefly written testimony.

I was born of humble parentage, February 7, 1850, in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland. About five years later my parents removed to Whiteinch, a small village four miles west of Glasgow, where we resided eleven years. Just how much of this time was spent in school I do not know; nor can I remember much about my school days except a vivid recollection of a rattan exercise that a pedagogue executed most vigorously; your humble servant being the unfortunate recipient.

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