Excerpt from A Midsummer Memory: An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson Arthur Upson, whom the following poem com memorates, was drowned from his boat in Be midji Lake, Minnesota, in the early evening of August 14, 1908, in the thirty-second year of his age. A lyric, just written, found in the empty boat, is the swan song referred to in stanza XLV I of the elegy. He had that very day com pleted a poetic drama entitled Gauvaine of The Retz, dealing with the Pornic legend of Gold Hair; but the manuscript disappeared with him and has never been found. During some ten years of literary activity, he published half a dozen volumes of verse and since his death his collected poems have appeared in two large vol umes. Before his passing, recognition had come to him from distinguished critics and he was known to the few who treasure good poetry; thepublishing of his collected works has already begun to secure the wider hearing his song 'de serves. 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.