The World Before the Flood

Excerpt from The World Before the Flood: A Poem in Ten Cantos, With Other Occasional Pieces Adverse or propitious, will follow of necessity, as the natural fruit of the Poet's labours, pro duced from their effects on the minds bf un prejudiced readers. 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.