Slings and Arrows

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Excerpt from Slings and Arrows: Tales, Sketches and Verses, Grave and Gay Lacks there a word of preface brief? This would I say to all who read: I deem he has not writ in vain, If haply he may serve your need. Oh ye who walk the lonely vale And list (how eager!) for the sound Of footsteps vanished in the mist, I pray that in this book be found Some comfort for your yearning hearts, Ah! once he trod where ye have trod And only dimly knew that Death Is but the messenger of God. And ye who, flushed with hope and youth, Carol through all the blossoming days He hopes to light your eyes with mirth, And win your light-accorded praise. He weaves the fantasy and song, The rippling laugh, the bitter moan, Into one weft, nor may you guess How dear to him each thought has grown. It seems to me his life is writ In many a lightly uttered phrase, So ask I, grateful for the past, God's peace be his these latter days, God's peace be yours. May Love and Hope Sun fleck your paths through all the years, And gleam from out a cloudless sky Until the eternal light 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.