Excerpt from The City of the Soul Since the middle of the year 1900, and the present edition has been issued in response to a steady demand, from both public and private sources, extending over the intervening years. My first impulse would have driven me to make large revisions in the text and to cut out altogether several pieces, but on further consideration I have decided to leave the text practically unaltered and to cut out thing. These poems are the poems of extreme and comparative youth, and the interest they possess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy 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.