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Excerpt from Songs From the Sunny South I have often wondered where Poems were written in the Cloister, in the Study, or under the high blue dome of Heaven! For mine I can answer - on hill and high land, in deep jungle and on wide Patna, by river and Tank and Temple, by the sea, upon the shore, and when the storm winds were sweeping the mountains, and the thunder bufi'eting the peaks that have stood the same buffets since the world was young. If what I have written breathes not of the places in which it came to birth, it is no fault of omission but greatly one of com mission, that I should be such ablock as to feel and feed upon the fair, the terrible, the gentle and the strong, and all the forces of things that are and yet to speak but as a soulless brazen bell, still having the conceit to ring out my discordant notes upon a single fellow-creature. Nay, I hope I have a little at least of my sorrow, my sympathy, my worship for the all-mother inset upon these pages. I believe I have or I would never have thought of letting others view them. Contemporary Poetry! Ah me, contemporary with the month of issue only or with all years! One should not, does not, cannot write with thought such as this in mind, but now as I am about to part with so many secrets, the wonder will not but rise, is there ought worthy to live in so much that is scarce worthy the boon of peaceful Death? 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.