The Memory of
HENRY GLASSFORD BELL,
LATE SHERIFF OF LANARKSHIRE,
THIS VOLUME,
ON WHICH HIS LATEST LITERARY LABOUR
WAS BESTOWED,
IS
Affectionately Dedicated.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
This new Edition of the Works of David Gray, containing, it is believed, all the maturely finished poems of the author, is a double memorial. It commemorates “the thin-spun life” of a man of true genius and rare promise, and the highly cultured judgment and tender sympathies of a critic who has passed away in the vigorous fulness of his years.
A specimen page of “The Luggie,” forwarded with an appreciative letter from a friend, reached the author on the day before his death. He received it as “good news”—the fragmentary realization of his ambitious dreams—and, in the hope that his name might not be wholly forgotten, said he could now enter “without tears” into his rest.