Excerpt from Specimens of the Russian Poets, Vol. 2: With Introductory Remarks Is a waste. 30, a land may. Be covered with verdure and cultivation, where: no column is raised to Commemorate the past' - 'where no pile makes an appeal to the sympathies of the future - where the generations of men flourish. And fade, ' and the place that knew them knows them. 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.