Excerpt from The Lost Love: And Other VerseIT is the business of an author, especially, of a satirist, to say much he would gladly not say, if he could be silent, yet be true to himself and the public. His duty is to show all sides of human nature, that it may be known of what manner of make we are. While life continues to be the long sigh that it is, I cannot, as an author, walk into the sin which keeps up this condi tion, too earnestly. Not that I expect to effect much in the way of reform, but, rather, for the satisfaction of trying to.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.