Excerpt from Select Extracts From "Friends' Religious and Moral Almanac," 1893 The day goes fast, my father! And the night Is drawing darkly down. My faithless sight Sees ghostly visions. Fears, a spectral baud, Encompass me. 0 Father! Take my hand, And from the night, Lead up to light Thy child. 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.