Excerpt from Strangers and Foreigners: Being Translations From the French, Italian, German and Middle High German, Done Into English Verse IN the old park, frozen and bare, Two forms but now have wandered there. Their eyes are dead and their lips are cold, And scarce may the words they speak be told. In the old park, bare and frozen fast, Two spectres have called back the past. Dost thou remember our former bliss? How should I remember aught of this? Does thy heart still beat when my name they say? Dost thou still in thy dreams behold me? Nay. Ah the bliss untold that we used to know, When lip touched lip. Perchance 'twas so. Oh the sky was blue and hope was high. Hope has fled vanquished to the black sky. Thus through barren fields they wandered on, And their words were heard by the night alone. Paul Verlaine. 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.