Excerpt from Poems of Sarah Shedd: Founder of the Shedd Free Library, Washington This little volume is presented to the public with the utmost confidence that it will meet with universal favor, t only from the personal friends and intimate acquaintances of Miss Shedd, but from the general public, and especially from all who have been, are, or ever will be the patrons of the Free Public Library which she has, with such liberality of heart, and magnanimity of soul, bequeathed to her native town. Miss Shedd's poems need interpretation. They are simple truths, told in a simple, yet eloquent manner. They come from the heart, and go straight to the heart of every one who has any affinity with the bility of thought, and the high tone of moral rectitude, that pervades every line of her writings, and invests them with a dignity and sacredness of purpose, that commands t only the respect, but the esteem of all who come within the radius of her influence. Not only lofty, but they possess the freshness of the morning breeze when it steals into our chamber and wakes us by its gentle breath to new life and vigor. 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.