Cotton
Its Cultivations, Marketing, Manufacture, and the Problems of the Cotton World (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cotton: Its Cultivations, Marketing, Manufacture, and the Problems of the Cotton World<br><br>Yonder bird.<br>Which floats, as if at rest,<br>In those blue tracts above the thunder, where<br>No vapors cloud the stainless air.<br>And never sound is heard,<br>Unless at such rare time<br>When, from the City of the Blest,<br>Rings down some golden chime,<br>Sees not from his high place,<br>So vast a cirque of summer space<br>As widens round me in one mighty field,<br>Which, rimmed by seas and sands,<br>Doth hail its earliest daylight in the beams<br>Of gray Atlantic dawns;<br>And, broad as realms made up of many lands,<br>Is lost afar<br>Behind the crimson hills and purple lawns<br>Of sunset, among plains which roll heir streams<br>Against the Evening Star!<br>And lo!<br>To the remotest point of sight,<br>Although I gaze upon no waste of snow,<br>The endless field is white;<br>And the whole landscape glows,<br>For many a shining league away,<br>With such accumulated light<br>As Polar lands would flash beneath a tropic day!<br><br>- From "The Cotton Boll," by Henry Timrod.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.