Dies Consecrati: OR, A NEW CHRISTIAN YEAR WITH THE OLD POETS. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION ΤΟ THE REV. G. TOWNSEND, D.D. CANON OF DURHAM. "The memories of the dead, To earth-worn pilgrims wistful eye, CHOBHAM: T. MEDHURST. LONDON: LONGMAN & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW: AND DARTON & CO., HOLBORN HILL. 1855. 147.0.60. DEDICATION. MY DEAR DR. TOWNSEND. The dedication of my little volume to you, is equally a pleasure to me, and an offering due to you, who, in early life, fostered my love for our old Authors, and taught me to understand and to venerate our Liturgy. It has been a labour of love to make the one, as it were, an exponent of the other. Such as it is I offer it with a better founded hope than had "dan John Lydgate," (when he composed his partly mythological, partly traditional, history of Troy,) for his readers, "That so be that they not ne read In all this book no rhetorikes new, Yet this I hope, that they shall find all true." Under all circumstances, I am, Dear Dr. TOWNSEND, Your's with respect and affection, H. E. M. PREFACE. THE similarity between the title of this little work and that of "THE CHRISTIAN YEAR," will indicate that the idea is not original which led to its compilation; it is offered to the public in the belief that many will derive pleasure in cherishing their feelings of devotion by the words of authors who have ennobled and sanctified our land and language. "One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts," are the expressions of an inspired Poet, whose words will be remembered till the end of time; it is beautifully illustrative of this saying, and of the article of our Creed, "the communion of saints," to shew that so many voices, under such diversities of time and circumstance, have uttered the same sentiments, and set forth the same great truths. |