Songs Along the Way (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Songs Along the Way The Spirit of Poetry The world turns slowly from the western sky Where Phoebus spreads about empurpled beams, From out the cloudy rift that opes on high The flashing gold of fair Elysium streams Upon this land where wondering I dream, This underworld where weary mortals spoil Their living for the life they would possess, And by this eastern stream I would forget the fever and the toil That makes of this fair paradise a worldly wilderness. Across the beauty of this world I lean Where fancy spreads afar her purple wings, And memory musing o'er the meadows green To find one star her inward vision brings, - For one bright star I found in this dark space That brightly burned and shone and passed away; But I saw thro' the night, To where it quickly passed and left a trace, For O it warmed me with its wondrous ray And poured upon my soul a flood of beauty fair and bright! There is a road that leads unto the sun, There is a land beyond the dark-rimmed hills, Where I would rest when weary day is done, Where peace and gentle dreaming freely fills The time without the advent of the hour; 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.