Excerpt from Land and Sea Pieces: Poems La Jeune Fille I watched you lead your dogs across the lawn, - A wave of sympathetic tails and noses, - You moved- in hackneyed language- like a fawn, And- true to the convention- gathered roses, Romped with your canine court, began to sing, Threw down your hat, and disarranged your tresses-, In fact were just the well-known winsome thing A jaded world pokes laughter at- and blesses. And I, your old tormentor, will proceed To persecute you sore with mock compassion 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.