Excerpt from Prairie Flowers For the most part, these poems are not given to the public for the first time by this compilation - many having appeared in sundry journals of note. These have been read, praised, criticised, and cop ied as clippings worthy the editor's shears, until I am convinced they belong to the public, uht by reason of oriental garniture, neither ex treme culture to reduce or expand, that they might conform to some single, critical fancy; but because they are free as the wild flowers, so beautiful and varied, after which they are named. 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.