Excerpt from Poetical EssaysOW sweet is merry childhood, With its innocence and glee, Its knowledge only of the good, The joyous, bright, and free.So full of life its little cup, The music of its merry laughter Is sent to cheer a sad world up, And tell of coming joy hereafter.Its future seems a fairy land, Of vast, unbounded scope, Painted all beautiful and grand By that skilled artist, Hope.So fresh and pure, its opening mind Doth Eden's simple faith possess, In God's great gift of life to find An endless spring of happiness.If such were then Creation's aim, Whence all the sorrow, suffering, shame.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.