Excerpt from The Power of Red Michael, and Other Ballads Somewbere beyond tbat island stretcbes a realm of painted sbadows. Coleridge, de Quincey, Mangan, Poe bave travelled a little of tbe country. Tbey all bribed tbeir way, I fear, witb tbe same costly syrup of dreams. I bave seen tbat realm lying like a purple cloud upon tbe sea, but it was far out of my course. 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.