Excerpt from The Poems of Trumbull StickneyStickney said to us, just before he died, Here are my manuscripts, you will do as you please with them. We were, he explained, with no further word of advice or guidance, to use only our own judgment: free to pub lish or suppress, in whole or in part, exactly as seemed best to us. Therefore i' happens that, in all particu lars of selection and editing, we are responsible for this present volume, which, in our intention, offers to the public, in definitive form, all of stickney's work that is for any reason valuable.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.