Excerpt from Lee and Shepard's: Star JuvenilesThe morning sky, thus the fairest promise Of youth may be irrevocably blighted, and, on the other hand, a youth and manhood spent in folly and crime have, though most rarely, been known to stop short of absolute perdition.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.