Village Muse e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The usual mode of printing poetry, is to spin out to a volume what might be compressed in a few pages, so that the purchaser might as well go to the paper-maker at once, and order a certain quantity of his ware, for the book binder. Half blank (in some instances threefourths) and half letter-press, are the usual features of contemporary publications in verse. I have often amused myself by counting the lines, i. E. The length of many a shallow stream, meandering through an extensive meadow of margin.