Excerpt from The Broken Bracelet: And Other Poems Thy hand that treasured them with miser's care, And gathered them together day by day. For thee each simple verse contained a spell, A charm beyond the fading gloss of earth; A something that did seem to link thy child With spirits of a loftier, nobler birth. And yet, before each spreading branch became The goodly tree thy hopeful glance descried, The careful guardian of its earliest shoot Was softly sleeping by the earth's cold side. 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.