Excerpt from Gamaille: And Other Poems Gamaille. A summer day had journeyed to its close; The air was stagnant with its slumberous fire, As earth receded from old Ph bus' car: A dingy blush stole o'er her burning cheek; With unseen hands the noiseless gloaming spread The swift increasing darkness: and the night, Where silvery sandaled walked the fair round moon, Spreading her robes of softest radiance down, Crowned the high arches of the unmeasured sky, With diadem of stars that glittered o'er all kings. Since Time came forth Eternity's first born. Fair Lyon stood where flows the silvery Rhone, Mingling its waters with the bright Sahone. The busy hands had left the heated rooms, Where lengthening webs crept from the noisy looms; And fairer grew to each the hope, that comes New-born each day, to bless industry's sons, - Of rest and quiet where the toiler rears The castles that shall crown his future years. Within a low-roofed cottage blushing stood, With witching grace of early womanhood, A fair young girl with lustrous eye half veiled By silken lash that swept a cheek now paled, Now reddened with the change of hope and fear Growing alternate victor, as her listening ear Drank in the story she had often heard: 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."