Excerpt from Heroic Idyls: With Additional Poems He who is within two paces of the ninetieth year may sit down and make no excuses; he must be unpopular, he never tried tobe much otherwise, he never contended with a contemporary, but walked alone on the far eastern uplands, meditating and remembering. 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.