Excerpt from Voices for the Speechless: Selections for Schools and Private Reading As another edition of Voices is called for, the occasion is improved to add further selections, in order to make the book more valuable. One of the earliest letters of high commendation of the first edition came from Mr. Wendell Phillips. He said, however, that two of his favorite poems were not in the book: Flush, by Mrs. Browning, and The Dog and water-lily, by Cowper. The compiler supposed that the first was there, but he then found that in some way it had failed to appear. Of course both are in the enlarged edition. It is delightful now to recall the glowing words of Mr. Phillips. A word of grateful acknowledgment is also due to Editors for unsought and most generous words of ap proval, where approval was most prized. To selec tions from Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Cowper, Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, and Dr. Holmes are now added others from the same poets and from many others. Additions of peculiar interest will be found from Thomson, Byron, Coleridge, Browning. 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.