Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Shadows of the Lake: And Other Poems
IN making these verses public property, I think that a few words of apology are needed for the tone of sadness that will be found running through the first few pages. While collecting my manuscripts for the press, I came upon some short poems, written some years back in a time of sadness. Written with no intention of publica tion, they have lain since unheeded. I have, however, decided to place them with my later pieces under the heading of Poems on Death, for, while feeling that in certain ways they are unsuitable for many minds, I believe that, to a few of my readers, they may bring some such relief as the writing of them gave me in my lonely hours. But any one who has not passed through the shadow of death will do well to leave them unread to such they will appear unduly full of melancholy, and also.
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