Excerpt from Ballads and Lyrics: Including "Legends of the Isles;" "Ballads and Lyrical Poems;" "Voices From the Mountains;" "Voices From the Crowd;" And "Town Lyrics;" Might, rapture-struck, a dwelling-place have made' Of some wild nook. There, fill'd with ecstasies, He might have sat, his spirit in his eyes, And all his mind impregnate, till he wrought On the dumb canvas an immortal thought. 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.