Excerpt from The Age of Ivory The wisdom of the tusked domination Holds up to shame the apery of mankind, The malice and deceit and tribulation, The tongue that wags and clacks, the vacant mind. Spirit occult! What ailment can have moved thee To give a race malign, that feared nor loved thee, Thy power on earth to loosen or to bind? Irremeable hour of mammoth tears When elephants were turned out to browse The prey to their inferiors' darts and spears Yet I the drowsing centuries can arouse, Revoke the past and view the calm, drab legions. Victors of aeons, who tread broad, fruitful regions Of tasselled grass 'twixt house and lofty house. 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.