Excerpt from The Dreaming Girl, and Other Poems IT is proper for the Author to observe, that he had, primarily, no intention of publishing this small vo lume. Having been often gratified by the perusal of some of those inimitable tales in Lights and Sha dows of Scottish Life, he was induced, simply for his own amusement, to commence these Poems; sometimes stepping upon, and strewing the line of occurrence in that work, with diversified, and poetical thought, supplied by the muse as he passed along; and, at other times conducted to such unbeaten, and fanciful paths, that some will say, they Scarcely bear similitude the while. 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.