Excerpt from Mountain Rhythms: Or Poems of a Mountaineer Believing that these requests have come from a sincere desire on the part of friends to see such a work, and sharing in this desire to some extent himself, the Author has been constrained to yield; and in offering this little volume - mountain rhythms, OR poems OF A mountaineer - to the reading public, it is with the earnest hope and sincere desire that it may awaken in the minds and hearts of its readers laudable ambitions, and furnish the inspiration through life for better thoughts, higher purposes, and more earnest endeavor. The Selections run through a variety of subjects, designed to entertain the old as well as the young, and furnish food for mental reflection to all lovers of sentimental and polite literature. May its truths be as Bread cast upon the waters, to be gathered after many days, and may it light the pathway of those inquiring souls, who are earnestly searching for the higher life. 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.