Excerpt from The Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson Dew on the grass: with the yellow fields bounded by the green hedgerows: with the river murmuring by, under the gray churchyard wall: with the aged oaks round the little church just touched into greater beauty by the slight morning frosts: with an influence in the air that seems to brace up mind and body to gether: with the quiet country people sitting on the gravestones before service, resting after their miles of walking over the crisp rustling leaves. Turning a new leaf in life, my reader, you know how misty your former mode Of living soon grows in your remem brance: it is only now and then that the Old time comes over you; and you seem to breathe the air and to be surrounded by the little cares and interests of those departed days. And even when these come back most vividly, they serve only to make you feel the more deeply how completely the old days are gone. 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.