Excerpt from Selections From the Nature Poets Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. Our eyes Are armed but we are strangers to the stars And strangers to the mystic beast and bird And strangers to the plant and to the mine. 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.