Poems (Griffin)/Dedication

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DEDICATION.


TO my beloved parents I dedicate this little volume; not that I wish the world to see this display of a daughter's affection, but with the feeling that I could not more appropriately inscribe it. Father, it was your lessons that taught me to love that which was useful and instructive,—to shun error and wrong; and to you will I always be indebted for whatever is practical and truthful in my writings. Mother, it was your love for the beautiful that led me to gather the prettiest flowers of the field and the brightest pebbles on the shore,—your approving smile that gave me courage to speak of them; and to you I will ever owe grateful acknowledgments for what images of fancy my little book contains.

​Since it was from you, dear father and mother, that I first received encouragement to write, then accept

This simple token of my love;
 'Tis all I have to bring;
But the wealth of a devoted heart
 Goes with the offering.

ALICE McCLURE GRIFFIN.

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 1, 1863.

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