Poems of Sixty-Five Years (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poems of Sixty-Five Years<br><br>Dear Reader! if my verse could say<br>How in my blood that Nature runs<br>Which manifesteth no decay -<br>The fire that lights a thousand suns;<br>How thou and I are freely lent<br>A little of that element:<br><br>If I could say what landscape says,<br>And human pictures say far more -<br>If I could twine the sunny days<br>With the rich colors on the floor<br>Of daily Love - how thou and I<br>Might be refreshed with charity!<br><br>How grateful is the softened smile<br>Of winter sunset o'er the snow!<br>And blessed is our spheral isle<br>That through the unknown void must go;<br>The current of that stream is sweet<br>Where many waters closely meet.<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.