Excerpt from My Hearthside: Poems Written to Sally 1 i ove, Iwould have thee as the snow is, white And pure on hilltops of the winter day; Thou shouldst have sovereign rule, the spirit sway Of beauty, wide and shining as the light. Thou shouldst be as the evening star is, bright As heaven can make it; all thy summer way The melodies of June should sing and play In thee, the darling of the day and night. But I would have thee human first and last, One not untouched by trouble, sought of sin, Thine innocence not accident, but choice. Fit then my service: I should have no past, No future; newly would my life begin, Obedient to the music of thy voice. 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.