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Excerpt from Similitudes From the Ocean and the Prairie On the velvet bank of a rivulet sat a rosy child. Her lap was filled with flowers, and a garland of rosebuds was twined around her neck. Her face was as radiant as the sunshine that fell upon it, and her voice as clear as that of the robin, singing at her side. The little stream went rippling on, while, with every gush of its music, the child lifted a flower in her dimpled hand, and, laughing gayly, threw it upon the water. In her glee, she forgot that her treasures were growing less; and, with the quick motion of childhood, she threw them one after another upon the sparkling tide, until every bud and blossom had disappeared. 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.