Excerpt from A Month With the Muses: Colorado Tales and Legends of the Earlier Days, in Verse, And, Some Fugitive Rhyming Lines Well, one day, in 'summer time, A day remembered well The air Was sweet as maiden's breath, When Love's emotions swell Her glowing bosom, White and pure As infant's smiling dream; The sun rays on the hills around Shone like a 'brilliant's' gleam: There came among us on the bar, A youth of comely m1en; His form was slight, but lithe and firm, His eyes blue-black and keen; His close-cropped hair was dark as night, His cheeks a ruddy brown, And round and full, and guiltless still Of man'hood's earliest down. 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.