Excerpt from The Blue Ship Each year when you come back again, she said, I wonder whether you'll be good at last Whether those foolish notions in your head May have been buried with the year just past. NO Stubborn you. But why persist, my friend 3 Our comradeship has meant so much to me, Why risk what now may bring it to an end, For something that can never, never be? We've had such pleasant times, since we were small. 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.