Excerpt from In Cornwall and Across the Sea: With Poems Written in Devonshire, Etc Although, owing to my absence in the Antipodes, "A Poetry of Exiles" and "A Summer Christmas" appeared in England so lately as last July and last October respectively, they were completed not much less than two years ago. This volume collects the fugitive pieces written during the interval. The poems entitled "Across the Sea" were written in or of my adopted country-Australia, and my interesting "voyage home," as all Australians patriotically call it, by way of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Sonnets 6-19 take the Reader from Ceylon to Plymouth, and were written in sight of the places which they describe. 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.