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Excerpt from Songs of the Common Day and Ave: An Ode for the Shelley Centenary BY the kind courtesy of Messrs. D. Lothrop Company, I am permitted to reprint in this collection seven sonnets from my volume entitled 'in Divers Tones.' This is done to complete the series of sonnets dealing with aspects of common outdoor life. The sonnets reprinted are 'the Sower, ' 'the Potato Harvest, ' 'tides, ' 'in September, ' 'dark, ' 'rain, ' and 'mist.' The Ode for the Centenary of Shelley's Birth was first published by the Williamson Book Company, O'f Toronto, in Decem. 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.