Excerpt from Rural Lyrics, Elegies, and Other Short PoemsThis volume is Simply what it purports to be - a collection of lyrics and short poems, written amid the exacting duties of a busy editorial life of two or three years past. I have no apology to offer for it, and nothing to ask of critics, save fair and just treatment. It was my intention to have completed one or two narrative poems, but other duties, and lack of time.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.