Excerpt from Manhood, or Scenes From the Past: A Series of Poems The reader of a former volume, written by the au thor of the present, will recognise, in this, the contin nation of a work, which was there left unfinished. To those who have not seen that volume, it may be meces sary to say, that the original design embraced a series of poems, in which the progress of Human Life should be traced from infancy to old age. The part formerly published was devoted to Youth; the subject of the present is Manhood as that of the next (should anoth er follow) will be Age. But though thus connected, in design, each forms a separate work, complete in it self, without reference to the two other parts. 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.