Excerpt from Poems The most of these poems were written in the years just prior to a long, serious ill ness, in the early part of 1915. Duringthat time his spirit was imbued with poetry and he was much absorbed in his verse. His absorption in all things that he found worth doing was great, and so his work was good, his poetry was good, he was a good surgeon, a good sportsman, and, finally, he died a good soldier. 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.