Excerpt from Poetic Buds Pursue thy flight on fancy's wing! In sympathetic numbers tell The woes a guileless maid befell! Down in a vale, beside a wood, A lowly white-thatched cottage stood 'tis years ago, and matters not The name, but 'twas a lovely spot Soft verdure clothed the sloping hills, Profusely veined with purling rills; Bright-foliaged trees waved high around The craggy steeps with pines were crowned. Here flowers in wild luxuriance grew; And birds to its safe coverts flew. Sweet Philomel her dreamy song Would often through the night prolong. 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.