Underwoods, Vol. 15

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Excerpt from Underwoods, Vol. 15: A Child's Garden of Verses There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently, the artist rarely, rarelier still, the clergyman, the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization, and when that stage of man is done with, and only remembered to be marveled at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race. Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who practice an art, never to those who drive a trade, discretion, tested by a hundred secrets, tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments, and what are more important, Heraclean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sickroom, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing. 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.