Excerpt from The Great White Banner The following Poems were written under varying circumstances and difficult conditions, ill-health and pressure of business. The author has had many opportunities of observing conditions in the cities of the United States and Canada, hence The Great White Banner. As to the minor poems, they had their origin in the influences of nature, and are to a certain degree expressions of his actual experiences, though many of them may be said to express rather the passing emotions of the writer's fancy. 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.