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Excerpt from A Perfect Day: And Other Poems And fire and battle-death! Am I less fair, less fair, Because that my hands bear Neither a sword, nor any aming brand, To blacken and make desolate my land, But on my brows are leaves of olive boughs, And in mine arms a dove! 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.