Excerpt from Onward: A Lay of the West With all the mingling tumult on the ear, Proclaim, indeed, that village life is here Silence no longer o'er the valleys broods, Echo reverb'rates through their solitudes; Around is heard the ax-man's measured stroke, And far prevails the awe of stillness broke 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.