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Excerpt from The Wayfarer's Garland: Songs and Pastoral Pieces Half the goodness stays behind, when a gift is bestowed: that joy in the gift, which is in the bestowal: it remains with the giver. For this reason, beloved fellow traveller. I cannot give you what I would. Yet as fragrance soon passes, and must be enjoyed while it lingers, therefore be complaisant. Pause in your repining at the slow going of the hours, the dreariness of the days, and the length of lite: take this, and if you can please yourself with it, during one short hour of your journey, much good will to you for that: you will commend yourself more than commend me. 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.