Excerpt from Thoughts From Nature's Heart To revise, publish and read the poetry of one who at that time has already been called to The Great Beyond is a task at once so painful and so pleasant that language seems to fail us in its capacity to express its own. Pain ful, because it keeps before us more than ever the start ling fact that Time again has deprived us of the pres ence of one without whom life will never again be quite the same - quite complete; pleasant, because it links us to that very Presence at its best. Or shall I say the Real Self, tho gone, is ever with us, giving its view-point unrestrainedly - checked, as it were, neither by impulses within or conditions without. Again, had Our Loved One lived, who knows whether we ever should have seen her aspirations in print! There was a certain shyness, or shall I say mod esty about her, which made her hesitate to show herself at her innate, true value and not one of us, husband or mother, sister or brother, ever caught her in the act of actually writing. Of at least two-thirds of her efforts no one but herself knew anything. It was but thru the untiring efforts of her husband that her very best selec tions were found, one by one; and the hiding places themselves were as inconspicuous as was the author. Not even of The Ode of the Memory of My Father, to me her favorite poem, did anyone, the family included, know the existence. In terms of a life lived so unpretentiously and so unassumingly, of a soul misunderstood by all but a fewwhose power of comprehension is far above that of the rest of us, we, her nearest and dearest, publish her writ ings, mainly for relatives and friends. Should others outside of that little circle wish to share our pleasure of reading, we shall be glad indeed, to serve them in the name of her whose physical serving has ceased to be. May her gentle spirit, better fit for a larger realm, look down upon our efforts in approval. 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.