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Excerpt from The Queen of the Fairies: A Village Story and Other Poems "A little cottage girl, She was eight years old she said, Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head." Wordsworth. "For now, being always with her, the first love I had - the father's, brother's love, was changed, I think, in somewise - " Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I. Poor little Nelly in her spotted frock Used to sit sobbing in our village school, Biting her short fore-finger, whilst her slate, All blotted with her tears, hung round her neck And seem'd a halter. From the narrow form Her mottled baby legs hung sadly down; 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.