Author: David Lowe

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781333391751

Excerpt from Ballad of a Great City: And Other Poems Around an ancient royal burgh, erected by a charter of the Gaberlunzie King, linger associations of our ancestors, and from the irregular streets, quaint lanes, and generous gardens, the fra grance still arises of a world that once was young and sweet and hale. For many dignified years you have lived and laboured day by day within the sphere of the in uence of that noble sonnet in stone which adorns our beautiful C apital, that princely edifice born almost three centuries ago of the genius of Inigo jones and of the bounty of the goldsmith Heriot. So it comes that whether [picture you standing in the ancestral garden, under the spacious cherry tree whose age no man can tell and whose blossoms never fail, or entering the grand old gateway through which generations of eager boyhood have passed to the pure delights of ampler hnowledge, the tresentment is as one, who, heeping abreast of the best of his period, is pleasurably at home with the best of bygone days. If these metrical comedies, ballads, and lyrics, carry with them a avour to your lihing, then is their dedication as fortunate as the felicity of their forthcoming. 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."