Author: Wallace Bruce

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781330774274

Excerpt from Wayside Poems Once more beside the familiar well-curb and its cool-dripping bucket, after years of wandering and sojourning in many lands! It has been the author's fortune, since the publication of his Old Homestead Poems, to realize an early dream - to dwell for a time in the land of his fathers, and muse amid the historic shrines of the fairest city in Europe. The favorable reception of his first volume on both sides of the Atlantic, and of the Clover and Heather edition by Blackwood & Sons, of Edinburgh and London, has prompted him to present these later Verses by the Wayside. Many are associated with happy friendships, formed during a delightful period of consular life at Edinburgh, many more with scenes and love-lit memories of our own country, with here and there a lyric-dream belonging to every land and every age. Principal Fairbairn, of Oxford University, has kindly said that several are "fragrant of both soils," and that it was "a happy thought to wed, through Scott and Irving, the Tweed and the Hudson." To bind the world in sweeter relationship is the highest province of literature. 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.