Excerpt from A Village Sketch, and Other Poems Introduction. Who loves t laughing brooks and shady dells?Who loves t sparkling draughts from mossgrown wells?Loves t the song of birds, of lisping trees?The new-mown hay that scents the evening breeze?What fervent heart loves t a rural home?Loves t at dusk through violet vales to roam?When Autumn tints the leaves with sunset rays, The cattle round the farmer's doorstep graze, 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.