"The Lazy Minstrel" from Joseph Ashby-Sterry. English poet and novelist (1836-1917).

Excerpt from The Lazy Minstrel Fring's Delights are now returning 1 Let the Lazy Minstrel sing While the ruddy logs are burning, Let his merry banjo ring I Take no heed of pluvial patter, Waste no time in vain regrets Though our teeth are all a-chatter, Like the clinking castanets Though it's freezing, sleeting, snowing, Though we're speechless from catarrh, Though the East wind's wildly blowing, Let us warble, T ra la la. 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.

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