Excerpt from The Singing Man: A Book of Songs and ShadowsWe make our songs as we must, from frag ments of the joy and sorrow of living. What Life itself may be, we cannot know till all men share the chance to know.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.

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