Author: Charles Lamb

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Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781330885925

Excerpt from Poetry for Children Alas, London is no longer to be the home of these boys, and the cloisters of the Old Grey Friars will soon moulder away, when the merry noise of sports and revels cease to awaken them to life. As I looked through the bars the other day watching the boys at their games, a strange fancy came to me. I thought I saw a pale and studious "Grecian" (as they call the head boys of the school, and walking at his side, with glittering eyes full of wonderment, was a younger lad - a boy with crisply curling black hair, and with ruddy brown complexion, and in his look so much lovableness and trustfulness that If lt myself envying the elder lad, whose hand rested so affectionately on the shoulder of his friend. I drew near to listen to their talk. The thoughtful Grecian was discoursing learnedly yet so sweetly about some deep matter of philosophy: it seemed somewhat beyond the younger boy, but he listened quietly, rapt in admiration. Suddenly the school-bell sounded. "Hurry on, Charles ''Mid deepest meditation sounds the knell' 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.