Excerpt from The Two Angels, and Other Poems: With an Introductory Sketch by George Gilfillan On the other hand, there are others of a poetical temperament who regret that they did not in early youth learn to rhyme and write verse with as much facility as to indite prose, and who think that by this their prose would have been improved, and any poetical attempt would have cost them less mechanical labour, and allowed them more freedom and ease in the act of composition. 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.