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A compact volume of lyric and occasional verse alongside epistolary pieces that blend personal remembrance, devotional reflection, and social gratitude. The prefatory material frames poems composed across health struggles and domestic solitude; many pieces evoke childhood landscapes and rural detail, while others offer moral anecdotes, petitions, tributes to patrons, and metrical renderings of popular fragments. Songs and a longer metrical tale diversify the forms, and recurring themes of thankfulness, faith, physical affliction, and quiet resilience are rendered in plain, heartfelt language aiming for sincere expression rather than formal polish.

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Title: A new selection of miscellaneous pieces, in verse

Author: Christian Gray

Release date: April 22, 2025 [eBook #75938]

Language: English

Original publication: Perth: R. Morison, 1821

Credits: Mairi, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A NEW SELECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, IN VERSE ***

A
NEW SELECTION
OF
Miscellaneous Pieces,
IN VERSE.

BY

CHRISTIAN GRAY,

BLIND FROM HER INFANCY,

In Milton, Parish of Aberdalgie, Perthshire.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first born,—
*      *      *        *     *
*    *   *    Thee I revisit safe,
And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou
Revisit’st not these eyes, that roll in vain
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
*    *   *    Yet not the more
Cease I to wander where the muses haunt—
Milton’s Paradise Lost,—Book III.

PERTH:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY R. MORISON.

1821.