Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Memoir of His Life Lay with his circular and dotted line, Fishing in silence. When the heart is light With hope, all pleases, nothing comes amiss: And soon a passage-boat swept gaily by, Laden with peasant-girls and fruits and flowers, And many a chanticleer and partlet caged For Vevay's market-place - a motley group Seen through the silvery haze. But soon 't was gone The shifting sail flapp'd idly for an instant, Then bore them Off. 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.