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Excerpt from Fireside Sonnets The firelight: it is more sweet than sad TO gaze into its depths of crystal flame, Its change to time from each bright shape it had, Its comforting to feel remain the same. What joy was in the tree of yesterday, Or it which centuries has lain in coal, To raise among the woods his tree-top gay From place in vale, or on ambitious knoll! And now it crumbles slowly in its course, In tranquil loss Of flake, and dust, and all So our strange shape and functions lose their force, With whate'er fire the mind its own can call. But whatsoe'er it be that may befall, I know a single movement governs all. 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.