Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Vol. 2 of 2 Are hurrying to the County Ball. Avaunt! I tread on haunted ground, And giddy Pleasure draws around, To Shield us from thine envious spite, Her magic circle! N ought to-night Over that guarded barrier flies But laughing lips and smiling eyes; My look shall gaze around me free, And like my look my line shall be; While fancy leaps in every vein, While love is life, and thought is pain. 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.