Excerpt from Songs Out of Exile: Being Verses of African Sunshine, Shadow, and Black Man's Twilight Most of the following verses have already appeared in a little volume Rhodesian Rhymes, published by Messrs. Philpott and Collins, of Bulawayo. Some few were contributed to South African periodicals subsequently to the appearance of that volume - the remainder are now printed for the first time. Many of the verses in lighter vein and of more purely topical interest which were included in Rhodesian Rhymes have been omitted from this selection; they were, perhaps, amusing in their day, but that day is done, and they were hardly worth perpetuating. I must repeat my acknowledgments to the editors of The Rhodesian Times, The South African Magazine, The Rhodesian Advertiser, The Rhodesian, The African Monthly, for permission to republish, and must also add my thanks to Messrs. Philpott and Collins for their courtesy in permitting the publication of this edition. 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.