Excerpt from Poems Lyrical and Dramatic A Gentleman of Somerset (In the old Burying-ground at Calcutta) In this dark, weed-grown wilderness, Where lie the dead of yesterday, There sleeps a warrior Englishman -A servant of John Company -Who, ere his reckless countrymenSnatched from the reeking tiger jawsThe fateful prize of empiry, Laid down his life, and saw moreHis home in leafy Somerset. Though one of that stern fellowship -That unremembered chivalry -Whose onset shook the sovereigntiesAnd world-old Powers of Hindostan, Yet oft in marchings to and froHis heart, grown sad unwittingly, Had whispered of the Severn Sea;And in the moon-blanched minaretsHad shown, by wistful alchemy, 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 techlogy 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.