Excerpt from Life's Sunbeams and Shadows, Vol. 1: Poems and Prose Public Educational System, should be dedicated in grate ful memory to the one who has also shown to the world the result of a life, prudent and patient, commencing like that of the author in the cultivation of the soil, and honest toil, culminating in the establishment and munifi cent endowment of an educational institution which, as the years go by, shall extend its vast civilizing and ben eficent forces in the education of our youth in this State and country, which shall forever challenge the admiration of the world as a fitting monument to the honored and universally cherished name - leland stanford. 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.