The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry VaughanHenry Vaughan came of an ancient and honourable Welsh family. The title Silurist, which appears on all his books after the first, is meant, so it is said, to distinguish among the many families bearing the name that which had its home in south-east Wales, once the seat of the warlike tribe of Silures. This family in old days had sent heroes to Agincourt, and supplied a victim to Richard Crookback, and the names of two of these, Davy Gam, Esquire, and Sir Thomas Vaughan, have attained to immortahty in the pages of Shakespeare. Their ancestral place was Tretower Castle, whence the poets grandfather had migrated to Newton, near Scethrog, the "Skethrock upon Usk" of the Prefaces; and here the poet was brought up, with the sound of the sacred river always in his ears. His path in life, the fallentis semita vitæ, as became a poet, never for long wandered from its banks; his proudest title is Olor Iscanus, the Swan of Usk; and his muse is certainly never happier than when promising an everlasting memory to its "lov'd arbours" and "gliding streams."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.