Excerpt from Voices of the City Hat is this tumult borne upon the air, This clamorous strife? 0 city, nearly great! The benedictions of a knowing Fate Have been but whispered, yet the inevitable care Of each day's toil, where competition bare Invigorates the fray, doth still await Thy every hour; and all too passionate Doth rule the courage that would win and dare. 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.