Excerpt from Sketches of Our Village: And Other Rhymes of Early and Later Years On reading the lines, All that's bright must fade 65 On revisiting Hastings after a long absence 57 A Simile 68 An invitation to the Country 59 To a young Lady on her departure for Kissengen 60 To a young Lady on her Marriage 62 Birthday Wishes 62 To Mary G. On her Marriage 63 To my little daughter on her Tenth 64 Ten years afterwards 65 A Poet' s Fancy 66 One Quiet Hour 67 Written In Girlhood to a friend enclosing a photograph 68 A Remonstrance addressed to a matter-of-faet friend 69 To a young Lady on her Marriage 70 On hearing the chiming of Speldhurst Church Bells 70 On the Picture of a Girl at Prayer 72. 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.