Excerpt from Poems We are all very much alike - the resemblance may not always appear, but it is there. There are minor differences, but the family likeness is strong. We have our faces set in one direction, our hearts are longing for the same good. We have all the same thirst after knowledge, the desire to penetrate the mysteries within and around us; the fears and mis givings, the dim uncertainties that encircle our lives, the mists that gather about us, when we would fain see the way clear and bright, before the confidence that would say, My Lord and my God and the reticence, which, in self-mistrust and timidity, dares only to catch hold of the hem of his garment, and hide away in the crowd: we have all these things in common, however we may appear outwardly to differ. It is this conviction which induces the author to send out into the world another collection of songs. She has strained after nothing great or profound, but has written of the things which all have felt and known for themselves, and therefore hopes for the sympathy of the reader. 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.