Excerpt from Human Fate, And, an Address to the Poets Wordsworth and Southey: Poems On him, who struggles with the waves and winds. All seems to him a strait and' lucid path. He shrugs his shoulders, and in accents smooth He gives advice: and then with voice oracular Tells us that trouble is the lot of man. 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.