Excerpt from I, MyselfI hold in my hand a pen, whose handle is as smooth as ivory and as pink as human ¿esh when the rosen hue of health kindles its surface, and yet as strong as though carved out of a human bone in whose perfect fibre no ¿aw Shall be detected. The pen I use is as a spear of light, the diamonds of whose twin converging points are as true each to the other as life and light. I will dip my pen in the warm crimson spray Shot forth, at this very moment, from a heart which beats fast and quick to the soul stirring music of an all absorbing ambition. Amber tears of joy and crystal tears of sorrow, dashing their liquid life upon page after page, Shall serve as points of punctuation and lend peculiar meaning and striking emphasis to each sentence. While I write, the twin eyes of two eternities shall search my soul and scrutinize each sentence as it leaps from my pen. The spirit-lamp of the Eternal One, who dwelleth in light, shall ¿ash the bright white light of never fading noon upon each page of my soul-biogra phy.And when the volume is complete, down to the last niche on the farther Side of the lowest purple line of'the last sheet of silver parchment, I will bind them in the manilla of human ¿esh, and stitch them with the silken thread of human nerve. The front piece shall be the divine profile of a human soul. Destiny shall provide a clasp of silvers - the wrinkled hand of Time shall close the book: -one hard, cold, metallic click! And an echo has been heard as though Death had suddenly set his naked teeth in grim and ghastly satisfaction. But the soul has found wings, earth recedes - the fires of eternity ¿ash in upon the soul, sights before unknown, un thought, undreamed, burst upon the vision. It is daybreak.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.