TRIBUTE: A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS UNPUBLISHED POEMS, BY Various Authors. EDITED BY LORD NORTHAMPTON. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; AND HENRY LINDSELL, WIMPOLE STREET. MDCCCXXXVII. PREFACE. THE Editor of the TRIBUTE, in submitting the following collection of poetry to his readers, thinks it necessary to preface it by a short statement of the circumstances under which it has been prepared for publication. This work was projected as early as Spring, 1836, while the late Reverend Edward Smedley was still living, and its original object was to spare him the necessity for those arduous literary labours which at that time threatened his sight or his life. His hearing he had already lost, and a disorder in his eyes was to all appearance sapping a sense still more precious. Before many weeks |