Excerpt from A Lost Epic: And Other Poems Was sunny and blossom-blithe, and but to live A very joy 3 for he'd outgrown the broad Untutored heart of homely man and maid, And, heedless of the common work-day life Which prompts the poems all the world can feel, Could scorn the only pages left to keep His name in kindly memory. 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.