Slings and Arrows: Tales, Sketches and Verses, Grave and Gay (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Slings and Arrows: Tales, Sketches and Verses, Grave and Gay

And ye who, flushed with hope and youth, Carol through all the blossoming days He hopes to light your eyes with mirth, And win your light - accorded praise.

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Excerpt from Slings and Arrows: Tales, Sketches and Verses, Grave and Gay

Lacks there a word of preface brief?
This would I say to all who read:
I deem he has not writ in vain,
If haply he may serve your need.
Oh ye who walk the lonely vale
And list (how eager!) for the sound
Of footsteps vanished in the mist,
I pray that in this book be found
Some comfort for your yearning hearts;
Ah! once he trod where ye have trod
And only dimly knew that Death
Is but the messenger of God.
And ye who, flushed with hope and youth,
Carol through all the blossoming days
He hopes to light your eyes with mirth,
And win your light-accorded praise.
He weaves the fantasy and song,
The rippling laugh, the bitter moan,
Into one weft, nor may you guess
How dear to him each thought has grown.
It seems to me his life is writ
In many a lightly uttered phrase,
So ask I, grateful for the past,
God's peace be his these latter days;
God's peace be yours. May Love and Hope
Sun fleck your paths through all the years,
And gleam from out a cloudless sky
Until the eternal light appears.

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 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.