PREFACE. THE scene, so lengthily described, of the following Poem, might, if fictitious, be objected to, as having of late been sung with such power and fidelity, and further, as having ceased-interesting as it may be to those in the vicinity-to excite public attention; but on this score,-as the Poem was not only designed, but in part executed on Dartmoor, and as the description of natural peculiarity rather differs from any pre |