Excerpt from Poems There bloomed two lovely flowers In a sweet and shady dell Through the summer's balmy hours They had graced its beauty well The soft west wind breathed on them, In the calm and stilly air And the bright sun shone upon them, As they grew in beauty there. Oh happy were those flowers In their home of love and light What a merry life is ours 1 Was their chorus day and night. The leaves bent down to watch them With a fond and holy care, Lest some rude-hand might snatch them. 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.