Excerpt from Hymns and Later Poems Early drawn by his natural bent into a printing office, he reached the foremost place as a stereotyper and type founder, and displayed consummate taste in the manu facture and arrangement of plain and ornamental type. The firm of which he was the head and master-spirit became famous for its productions. From his boyhood he seized every fragment of time for reading and study. And early did acceptable work in literary journals. Volume after volume of poetry followed in due course, and the present volume was prepared for the press by his own hand in his eighty eighth year. 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.