Poetical Memoirs The Exile A Tale Scholars Choice Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Poetical Memoirs: The Exile, a Tale What! write my Life? - my Life! - and can this be From such a Bard - a modest Bard - like me? To write, regardless of the wreaths of fame, My Own Memoirs, and print them with my Name! And no Apology? - no Preface here? No page inscribed to Commoner, or Peer? 'Tis even so! - Ye Critics! spare your Rods; Ye more than Men - ye less than Demi-gods! On your goose-quills the public feeling rides, Ye Thunderbolts - ye cruel Vaticides! I own your power, I know ye are the Lords Of Poets, armed with Tomohawks and Swords, With which - O, barbarous! - ye, furious, fall On rhyming heads - may Heaven forgive ye all! Well - if ye flog me - when your rage is o'er, I'll kiss the Rod, and write - two Cantos more! 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.