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Excerpt from Song Leaves: From the Book of Life and Nature These Song Leaves are but fragments, and, it must be con fessed, thrown together with little order or sequence. Parts in themselves may be considered complete, so far as I was capable; but as a whole, I would indeed be blind not to see that it is a very insufficient poem. This is a source of regret to me: not that my vanity led me to suppose I had the genius necessary for the pro duction of a finished work, but that I have fallen so far below even my own conceptions, and that which I pictured in my mind, my poor abilities as a writer failed to do justice to in language. But I frankly own that I have done my best, be it for better or worse, and as such submit my Leaves to the public, not without misgiv ings, yet hoping the reader may at least be as kind as I have been candid. 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.