Excerpt from Songs of an Idle Hour To the first, he says, that in ignorance of any law defining one's mode of recreation, he has spent the idle hours of an active life in watching the peculiar antics of the impractical, the winged steed, Pegasus; and if unconsciously he has done wrong, he fully acknowledges the crime, but not the intent, and asks, but begs not, to be forgiven. 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.