Excerpt from The Prophet and Other Poems Upon your faces with the waiting light What are ye but our Prophets? Never all Wide-eyed, astound, and wild, but having some That blink o' the vision which produces Brighter things. To dwell upon the future sinks to-day's Material, worldly things into the past. 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.