Excerpt from Rustic Rhymes And thought he could do it, To recall some poet Like Pope or like Byron, And still keep his eye'on A model above him, Whose art might improve him Nor must he be stuffed With conceit or puffed With the vain idea, That the world would see a Beauty in such rhymes As his in these times. That if he should try them In print, none would buy them, When every bookseller Copies of Longfellow, Bryant, and Tennyson, And Waldo Emerson, Displayed in his store, With a number more Of illustrious name, The favorites of fame. For him to aspire To rank among those, In verse or in prose. 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.