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Excerpt from Poetic Localities of Cambridge HE ravages of modern improvement bid fair to destroy within not many years the few things amongst us which our poets have made classical. In the hope that I may preserve them for another generation, I have photographed some of those which belong to Cambridge. This I have taken on myself to do, though no child of hers, but only a vagabond guest made free of her fields and memories, and not unknown in some of the houses which are her pride, that' I may thereby pay my tribute of reverent admiration where the muse has given her highest favors. Of my subjects, one, the chestnut-tree, is preserved, a maimed beggar for the grace of Cambridge city fathers, only on account of the poet's consecration. May the chrism be more potent, even, for the others, and. 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.