Excerpt from Gleanings From Merrimac Valley Poets in all ages, have made classic their own native rivers. Wordsworth and Burns have sung the beauties of the Y ar row and Sweet Afton, while our own poet has made the valley redolent with songs of the delightful Merrimac, whose tranquil loveliness attracts the eye of every beholder. 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.