Excerpt from Songs in the Night: With the Supplement, and a Remarkable Scene in the Life of the Author H ow strange! I'm_ deaf, and dumb, and lame, and blind, R obb'd by my dearest friend, I'm truly poor, I 'm fed by mortals; but let m'ortals know, \8 uch is my food, no mortal can bestow. 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.