Excerpt from Domesticities a Little Book of Household Impressions
In gratitude; yet with apology
For offering a book which seems to me
So very far from what it ought to be.
Because all books, I think, should manifest
Their author's self, complete, north, south, east, west;
And here so much of me seems unexpressed:
Not great (Heaven knows!) nor curiously fine,
Nor aught, may be, to help a single line,
Yet certain things more intimately mine.
Still, lacking these, I beg to give it you, -
One of the kindest friends man ever knew.
Perchance, in reading, you'll deduce a few.
E. V. L.
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