Excerpt from My Garden, and Other Poems Such a preface as this makes one regret that he wrote the proem for Murmurs and Melodies in verse. This work was published in 1884, and is the last volume that he has produced. But the three books named in no way represent the whole of his output, for he has issued many poems singly, and a collection of these, together with his contri butions to daily and weekly journals, would fill a good-sized volume. And all this in spite of forty years in factory and workshop. But the spirit of ...
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Excerpt from My Garden, and Other Poems Such a preface as this makes one regret that he wrote the proem for Murmurs and Melodies in verse. This work was published in 1884, and is the last volume that he has produced. But the three books named in no way represent the whole of his output, for he has issued many poems singly, and a collection of these, together with his contri butions to daily and weekly journals, would fill a good-sized volume. And all this in spite of forty years in factory and workshop. But the spirit of song is not allowed to interfere with the social and political work of the citizen. While john Gregory toils and sings he also strives, by work on committees, trades' councils, and on the platform, to ameliorate the lot of his fellow-toilers. Indeed, few men during the last forty years have laboured more conscientiously and honestly on behalf of suffering humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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