Excerpt from A Rose of the Old Regime: And Other Poems of Home-Love and Childhood The book is issued in response to a genuine demand from hundreds of readers of the poems for their preserva tion in permanent and convenient form. That this de mand should arise, or that the poems should have won such wide and kindly recognition as they. Have in all parts of the country, was as great a revelation to me as anything possibly could be. Songs of homely sentiment, they have been written out of a simple life of care and struggle and I now see that it is due, perhaps, to the universal appeal in this, to a certain homespun individuality, and to their obvious candor and sincerity, that they have found their way to the hearts of the people. 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.