Excerpt from The Lion and the Lilies: A Tale of the Conquest; And Other Poems NO more opportune time than this year of the Diamond Jubilee could have been chosen for the appearance Of a collection Of poems so full of patriotic fire as these of Dr. J akeway's. Long urged to publish a volume Of his verse, the Author has yielded happily at a time when the daughter-nations of our British Motherland are gathering about her to celebrate with becoming splendor and dignity the sixtieth year Of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria's glorious reign. 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.