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Excerpt from Leisure Moments "A Risen City," which appears between these covers, is, properly speaking, only a sequel to that poem, "A Stricken City," published in the Autumn of 1907, in a little volume entitled A Stricken City. At first I thought it well to lend the title, A Risen City, to this selection; but seeing that the writing of these poems had been the occupation of my spare moments, and hoping that they may be found fit for the filling up of many a leisure hour, I have decided to use Leisure Moments as the title of this book. Since each of the two poems, mentioned above, may be regarded as two separate cantos of one poem, I may safely include here the verses, which I composed after the manuscripts of A Stricken City had left my hands, and which would be duly inserted in some future printing of that poem. 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.