In honor’s path, of him who was thy pride;
So shall my feet, from snares of error free,
Tread only paths of truth, toward Heaven and thee.
THE DREAM OF MEHEMET.
AN APOLOGUE.
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BY RICHARD PENN SMITH.
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Thus spoke the gray-haired dervise. Selim was left to my care; his dying parents bequeathed him an ample fortune, and their example of virtue and affection. Such was his inheritance.