Excerpt from Wanderings by the Abbey, or Poems and LyricsIT has been customary that a young author, on venturing to appear before the public, should offer some reason for his temerity, and I am fully sensible how necessary some apology is in my own case. The best apology, however, that I can offer, is a simple narration of the circumstances that have led to the production of the fol lowing little work.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.