Excerpt from The Passing God: Songs for Lovers I cannot say whether or not Mr. Kemp has ever held up a train - though I should be very disappointed to learn authoratively that he has not. He has done so many arduousyadventurous things of the kind things that some of us dream of all our lives-that it must be merely an ac cident if he has not been a train-robber as well. I have met many poets, but never, so far as I know, a train-robber; and I would gladly ex change a baker's dozen of poets for one train robber. A train-robber and a poet combined would, it seems to me, be something like a com plete man. However, as I have said, Mr. Kemp, in his many manly activities, has come so near to my dream, that he quite sufficiently fills the bill. 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.