Excerpt from Grass of Parnassus: Rhymes Old and New Thirty new pieces, either unpublished or hitherto uncollected, have been added. Some of these had appeared in Serz'ener's, Long/nan's, and Blackwood's Magazines, in the Scots Observer, and the Illustrated London News. One or two omissions have also been made. The author cannot resist the pleasure of mentioning that the versions from the Greek Anthology were prompted by the encouraging kindness of the. 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.