Ol' Stampin' Grounds

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Excerpt from Ol' Stampin' Grounds: And Other Poems Among men of the pen there are certain parallels bound to impress even the most superficial observer. The work of the late Ben King, of St. Joseph, in many ways suggests the work of Howard Smiley, of Marshall and Gull lake. Mr. King was.an older man than Mr. Smiley, but throughout the verse of each of them runs a thread of humor, of genial optimism, of tender and homely sentiment. For them, "the hills were dearest which their childish feet had climbed the earliest, " and the local muse inspired many of their best efforts. For them, too, the Book of Nature proved a cherished volume, and what they have had to say has less to do with the sedentary life than with life in the open - the keen, throbbing existence of the Great Out-Doors, where inspiration comes at first hand. And what Opie Read so touchingly says of Ben King may not inappropriately be said of Howard Smiley: "How odd a boy he was - no one understood him. 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.