Excerpt from Poet and Peer, Vol. 2 of 3 He had wandered on, under the sharp, black shadow of the houses, pursuing this curious train of thought and introspection, until the noise of falling waters gained upon his ear, and, turning a corner, he beheld the streams of the gigantic fountain, smitten by the moonlight, issuing from its huge panoply of stone and artificial rock. 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.