ΤΟ FREDERICK WILLIAM CRONHELM, ESQ. This Poem, IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND, WILLIAM DEARDEN. PROEM. IN the beautiful and romantic valley where the scene of the following Poem is laid, a venerable relative of mine recently resided, full to o'erflowing with legendary lore respecting the valley and its inhabitants, in the olden time. From his lips, as we sat one fine summer's eve, a few weeks previous to his death, on a bench before his cottage, heard the particulars of the traditionary story on which the Poem is founded. By the majority of those who, being stern matter-of-fact personages, and exceedingly sceptical, not only of the utility, but of the verity, of all records that are in the slightest degree tinctured b |