Excerpt from Not Changed but Glorified: And Other Verses The soothing solace of a verse, will sometimes bring a touch of comfort, when words in other shape would al together fail. There is a subtle power in poetry. The falling cadence and the recurring rhymes and rhythm, give us a sense of harmony and order, and this, in itself, produces a feeling of rest within our shocked and stricken hearts. It is like the ebb and flow of the waters of the summer sea, which lull us to pleasant thoughts and sweet memories. It is like the whispering winds which stir among the branches of the forest. It is like the recurring beams of sunshine which sweep across the landscape in moving bands of light. All these do lift us from our own sad sorrows, and bring us face to face with the ever-pres ent glory which surrounds us even in our sadness. 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.