THE

DOMESTIC HEARTH,

AND OTHER POEMS.

BY

ISABELLA CAULTON.

SECOND EDITION.

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"That Great Altar, where the worst amongst us sometimes perform the worship of the
heart, and where the best have offered up such sacrifices, and done such deeds of heroism,
as, chronicled, would put the proudest temples of Old Time, with all their vaunting annals,
to the blush."
CHARLES DICKENS.

MANCHESTER:

BRADSHAW AND BLACKLOCK, BROWN STREET; AND

FLEET STREET, LONDON,

1844.

LOAN STACK

4095

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MRS. HUDSON

C75D6

1844

HARVERBRACK, WESTMORELAND.

MY DEAR MRS. HUDSON,

It is with feelings of unmixed satisfaction that I avail myself of your kind permission to dedicate to you my metrical essays. Indeed, to whom could they be more appropriately devoted, than to one under whose roof the greater number of them were composed, and who has ever, in her own life, illustrated the beauty of the subject on which the chief of them treat? As an earnest tribute of esteem, an offering of sincere affection, I intreat you to receive my humble volume.

A few words regarding the Poems themselves may not be here misplaced. My aim has been to represent, though in a detached form, the influence, the importance, of a Religious Home,-of a holy and happy Hearth,—