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Excerpt from Around the Fireside, and Other Poems Around the fireside should ever be To gladness given, but to sadness dumb; Here should those long-departed always see A haven they may enter when they come Across the ocean billows of this life; Here Should the sin-sick sons and daughters cast Life's anchor evermore and quell the strife Within their hearts, here should they come at last, Around the fireside. 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.