Excerpt from The Silent Village: A Poem, With NotesThe plan of the following Poem is extremely simple, being merely brief histories, or rather sketches, Of a few notable persons, supposed to lie in the long and deep repose of a village church-yard - hence its name, The Silent Village.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.