Excerpt from Earth Deities: And Other Rhythmic Masques To this still outpost in the wilderness, Slow-moving, rapt in thought, a Sibyl comes, And halts to stand at gaze across the scene, Veiled in the purple gray of forest boughs, A heroic figure, tall and grave, and dim Save for the glowing eyes as dark as earth, And voice reverberant as a haunted reed. 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.