Excerpt from In the Heart of the Meadow: And Other Poems The age in which we live is a practical one and not gleaming with poetic fancies. In England to-day there are various poets, but none that could be placed in the rank of Tennyson, Byron or Browning. In the United States, amid the numbers who write poetry, there cannot be found any equal to Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant or Poe. Canadian poetry has been well sustained during the past twenty-five years by a Roberts, a Carman, a Campbell, a Scott, a Service, a Dr. Drummond, and many others, and though the population of the Republic to the south of us is ten times that of Canada it certainly has not to-day ten times as many inspired singers. This volume, "In the Heart of the Meadow," is, I understand, Mr. O'Hagan's fourth published book of verse. Of the merits of the poems it is only necessary to say that while most of the poetry of our day seems to have buried itself in obscurity, Mr. O'Hagan's poems are easily understood and come freely from the thought and imagination. 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.