Excerpt from Stray Leaves: Or Traces Races of Travel Breaks upon mine ear The sound of another sea, Linking far with near That far how near to me Echoes out of the past, Wave-sounds from the shore, Woven in dreams at last Of days that are no 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.