Excerpt from Milestone Moods and Memories: Poems and SongsDear reader, some of the tri¿es found on the following pages have lain in my desk for nearly forty years others of them for over twenty. I am not certain that I can now offer any adequate excuse for the folly of publishing them, but the saddest feeling, and the dark est word written or spoken in any language, is annihila tion. Even to be forgotten amid earthly surroundings is not a pleasant contemplation.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.