Excerpt from Eagle Oak, and Other Poems From his presence She has parted She the loyal, angel-hearted On an unknown journey started, To the realm where all must go; From the shadows of life's dreaming With Hope's light her pathway gleaming Through the Valley's darkness - seeming, She left to him the night of woe. Death's the foeman of our being Lurking where no one is seeing Till his touch, the spirit freeing Q From these tenements of clay; Then outward bounding from its sighing NO more living, no more dying A voiceless thought forever flying. 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.