THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 160830 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. Southern District of New-York, ss. (L. S.) BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of March, A. D. 1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, J. G. C. Brainard, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: Occasional Pieces of Poetry. By John G.C. Brainard. Some said, "John print it ;" others said, "Not so Bunyan's Apology. In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to arts the of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. INTRODUCTION. THE author of the following pieces has been induced to publish them in a book, from considerations which cannot be interesting to the public. Many of these little poems have been printed in the Connecticut Mirror; and the others are just fit to keep them company. No apologies are made, and no criticisms deprecated. The commonplace story of the importunities of friends, though it had its share in the publication, is not insisted upon; but the vanity of the author, if others choose to call it such, is a natural motive, and the hope of "making a little something by it," is an honest acknowledgment, if it is a poor excuse. |