Excerpt from Selections From the Poetical Works or Mortimer Collins For the last ten years I have occupied much of my leisure time in putting music to Mortimer Collins' lyrics, and I have thus become familiar with the poet's works. I discovered that many of the best poems were scattered about in magazines and news papers, and therefore likely to be lost; so I have made it a labour of love, from time to time, to collect all these. 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.