The Vale of Shadows

Excerpt from The Vale of Shadows: And Other Verses of the Great War There is a vale in the Flemish land, A vale once fair to see, Where under the sweep of the Sky's wide arch, Though winter freeze or summer parch, The stately poplars march and march, Remembering Lombardy. 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.