Magpies in Picardy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Magpies in Picardy The Author of the following poems was killed in France, in early manhood, on March 23rd, 1918. The selection here printed represents the best of his verse, none of which has hitherto been published, except in newspapers and periodicals. In August, 1914, he enlisted in the Grenadier Guards. Subsequently he was commissioned in the Sherwood Foresters, in which regiment he served for a long period overseas. At the time of his death he was a captain, and, according to all accounts, an energetic and experienced soldier. His friends, however, will wish to remember him as a writer of clear promise and a great companion, while the boys who worked under him, as a schoolmaster, will feel, all their lives, the benefit of his influence. He had the power, in an unusual degree, of becoming the comrade of his pupils, and of making their existence happy and their education a natural enjoyment. His literary talent showed itself precociously early, but afterwards developed rather slowly. 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.