Excerpt from The Silent Village: A Poem, With Notes The plan of the following Poem is extremely simple, being merely brief histories, or rather sketches, Of a few notable persons, supposed to lie in the long and deep repose of a village church-yard - hence its name, The Silent Village. 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.