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                        THE
                   NEW-YORK BOOK
                         OF
                       POETRY.

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        "Patriae fumus igne alieno luculentior."
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                       NEW-YORK.
             GEORGE DEARBORN, PUBLISHER,
                  NO. 38 GOLD STREET.

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                         1837.


                       NEW-YORK:
           Printed by SCATCHERD & ADAMS,
                   No. 38 Gold Street.




  ADVERTISEMENT.

The work here presented to the Public is compiled from the poetical
writings of natives of the State of New-York. The chief object in making
the collection was to give 'a local habitation and a name' to fugitive
pieces, which, though deemed worthy of being thus preserved, have
hitherto