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Excerpt from King Poppy: A Fantasia This poem, conceived in 1872, and first put into verse in 1874, was never entirely out of its author's hands, and was almost rewritten during the latest years of his life. It was Lord Lytton's favourite creation, the one upon which he bestowed the most persistent and loving labour. The poem in its first form was written in little more than four months, but the work of per fecting it was a slow process, and he would often devote days to the choice of a single word. He was zealously revising it in the summer of 1887, when he was appointed ambassador to Paris. The revision, however, went on in the intervals of leisure, and before the end of 1890 he had finished his correc tions, and brought the poem to the form in which it now appears. 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.