Cypress Beach (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Wm H. Babcock
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483314962
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Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Excerpt from Cypress Beach Now a preface is a thing Of many uses. It may serve to convey a man's ideas Of most problems in the universe; but I prefer to reserve the main body Of my text for that, and even then there is generally something left over. It may be in itself a delicate and original piece Of art in the humorous vein -ii one were only a Nathaniel Hawthorne to make it so. Or it may turn benevolent and save the chorus of indolent reviewers all trouble of looking farther. It certainly did seem to me when once upon a time I set before the public an unpretending structure of verses, that in some way I had made the vestibule too seductive. Most of my newspaper friends who did not devote their energy to contradicting each other were well content to lie down in it, after the fashion of a man coming home very late indeed to a doubtful welcome. Any foot-rug Of a quotation from my preliminary prose would serve them for a covering. But this was long ago, and there were things in that poetry which may have merited worse treatment. However that may be, I wish to have the present story read, a little Of it at any rate - and it is not very long - even by the running journalist. It probably will not hurt him; for I know well the capabilities Of that tribe, having sinned and suffered in my time, as one of. Them, although not for long. And an enduring mind have the destinies appointed to the children of men. 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.