To My Father
Rev. Stephen Townsend, M.D., Ph.D.
WHOSE ANCESTORS EXPLORED THE CHESAPEAKE BAY IN 1623,
AND WERE SETTLED ON THE POCOMOKE RIVER ALMOST
TWO HUNDRED YEARS, NEAR HIS BIRTHPLACE; WITH THE AFFECTION OF HIS ONLY SURVIVING SON.
Of the following pieces, two, “Kidnapped,” and “Dominion over the Fish,” have been published in Chambers’s Journal, London. The poem “Herman of Bohemia Manor” is new. All the compositions illustrate the same general locality.