Excerpt from A Falling SparkFirst: I have not written with any thought upon the critic, but only to satisfy myself. So it is not he, but myself, that must now make a decision.Second, I do not know that to be wise should be the ruling thought. Anyway, who knows what wisdom is?Third: There are ideas contained in these early verses, and there is music in some of them that may be worth saving. Perhaps the work of youth may be as wise, in its own way, as that of maturity. We grow old, and we look backward upon our own youth and down ward upon the youth of those about us with an entirely different angle of sight, and sometimes we disapprove and condemn what we see. But we never grow young, so that we can look down upon and examine the work of our maturity and our age and judge it as it deserves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.