Excerpt from Edinburgh and Country Croonings: Being Selections From the Shorter Poetic Writings of James Lumsden Owing to increasing years and frailties I have not felt in strong enough fettle for some time to undertake the writing of another entirely new work, and I stated this to the publishers. They, while regretting the fact, have generously suggested that, instead of an entirely new book, I might perhaps see my way to selecting and revising a volume from the whole of my shorter poetic musings - new and old, published and unpublished - from all of them, in short, still extant and within reach. I fell in with this flattering proposal all the more readily as I was painfully conscious that many of my earlier effusions in verse were produced in unfavourable circumstances and urgently demanded revision. The limited task which I thus undertook I have now completed, and I may be allowed to indulge the hope that in sending forth this volume it will give pleasure to many readers and friends alike in my native country, and in Scottish settlements beyond the seas. 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.