Excerpt from Songs of the West IN placing this volume of poems before the public, the author ess has been actuated more by the advice of friends than the mere love of fame, and if her songs shall be as music to one listening ear, not vainly will she have wrought through the red heat of summer days, or the white frost that lays nightly along the devious paths of every human life. As the dove went forth from the sacred ark, so her heart's bird goeth forth to the world from these pages, not knowing if it will find rest in sunny places, and beneath serene skies, but may it be to bear the branch of olive as a token, that shall bloom in perennial. 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.