Excerpt from The World Lays Before Us The World Lays Before us. The world lays before us, We plainly kw well;We should be decorousWith certainty delve. In beauties unfoldedIn every clime, They are thus moldedBy nature's own time. We only grow wearyA living this life, Life is so drearyIn pain and strife. In vain we combat it, And nerved to the last;Over all dwell the hermit, We are certainly past. 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.