Excerpt from Sagas of Vaster Britain: Poems of the Race, the Empire, and the Divinity of Man

The Eluding Angel

Sweeter than music,
Stronger than joy,
Rarer than knowledge
For all worlds fain,
Ever recurring,
Clings to the heart
That high and poignant
Poetical pain: -

Heard in the under-
Tones of the springtime,
Under the sigh of
The leaves and the grass,
Under the refluent
Winds as they pass.

Something akin to
The whisper of silence,
The magic of moonlight,
The sadness of art,
The anguish of battle,
The triumph of heroes
Lying so cold in
The dead tomb's heart.

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.