Excerpt from Poems and SongsI have much store laid past in safest keeping, My merchant ships are on the billows sweeping, My barns are full, my acres green and broad, My table groans beneath its sumptuous load, Like golden dreams my prosperous years have ¿ed, Now gleaming ¿akes of silver ¿eck my head, Their mellow light is like a halo o'er me, Methinks a brilliant future lies before me. With fawning friends and ¿atterers I'm surrounded, With gifts and public honours quite confounded.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.