Excerpt from Immensee Wherever it was practical and has also made such additions and changes as seemed to him necessary for more perfect English form. The translator, in this connection, acknowledges the courtesy of Mr. John Vance Cheney, whose own lyrics are so well known, in acceding to his request to make an English metrical version of those in Immensee. While these have also been translated freely, Mr. Cheney has retained the style and sentiment of the original, and has invested them with an added. 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.