Excerpt from The Wild Poets Rest Where Fancy, so ruthless, first built her domain; And I 'll tell you some truths - where I was first taught, And the knowledge from home stock I with me had brought; And I 'll tell for learning how I made amends, For I labored for teaching and cost of my pens: Yes, for learning was scarce, and came hard, 'tis true, For I trod in the wild path as the natives withdrew. Orthography I learned from Webster's old book, Although it was pick'd up by book and by crook; Alexander's my grammar - yet here was my woe For, if I learned grammar, how could I Spin tow?* This book was my bane, and near took my life For to read it'and study I kept up a strife. 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.