Excerpt from An Ancient Poet This is a short fanciful sketch of the life of a sublime. Fantastic poet who lived ages ago in an Eastern land. This poet dwelt among people that hated him; the poor hated him because he preached heresy, and the rich hated him because he preached Communism. Throughout his life he was persecuted in many ways, but he died uncom plaining, tranquil and satisfied, consoled by the thought that his sufferings would end in death, and that the past was of no account, since death would obliterate and render nought the past, whether it was a suffering past or an nu suffering past. 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.