Excerpt from Elijah: A Sacred Drama and Other Poems Should there be any grave personages ready to draw down their ominous eyebrows, as if the author were forsaking Mount Zion for Mount Carmel, or worse yet, for Mount Helicon, let them be informed, that the Elijah owed its origin to the seclusion of a sick-room; where, debarred for a season from active profes sioual labor, the pen helped to beguile the tedium of a pro tracted confinement. It was under such circumstances, and propped up in bed by a mechanical contrivance, that the greater part of the poem was written. 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.