Excerpt from Poems of T. E Brown What I can do I do, nor am I vexed Nor worn with endless strife. As you are, being perplexed, With suppositions, scribbling o'er the text Of natural life. And seeing that this so. (Old John, p. 93.) The subtitle "Homo Loquitur to Part I. is editorial. A word remains to be said about the portrait of T. E. Brown as a youth - chosen for the frontispiece of our volume. Those familiar with the expression of the older man, so admirably reproduced in the portrait of the Collected Poems, may feel dissatisfied. They may miss that mixture of humour and gravity in the countenance which the weight of years had wrought in his features even before he began to publish his poems. On the other hand, the new portrait, which is said to be really an excellent copy of the original, looks the very image of the youth who was to be the father of the man. Doubtless one notes the absence of the ironical strain; but the humour, or at any rate the fun, seems to lurk round the lips of this youthful portrait. And as a discerning judge of character remarks, "Why! he has eyes that look as though they could see into both worlds." 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.