Excerpt from A Thousand More Verses Sadness and Gladness were walking together, As oft they had done before Sadness was sighing, and Gladness reply ing With jewels of laughter galore. How on this earth can you find any mirth, When sorrow is sown in your sight?> How can you sigh, was the merry reply When all of the world is so bright? 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.