Excerpt from The Poems of John C. Colgan I have written much during the last thirty years. Some of my Poems are entirely lost, shreds of others hang still upon my memory - they are hopeless cast aways, wrecks upon the blea'k shores of dim forgetful ness - whilst many more are merely local productions, which are dead when the characters or scenes they portray pass off, and can have no interest for the gen eral reader. 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.