Excerpt from VersesBeware, you write, of Adam-zad, the bear that looks like a man, And you make us laugh and shudder, as only the poet can, Yet away in the northern darkness Christ is speaking thro' a man, And - perhaps you understand him as well as an Englishman can.Away in the northern darkness, from the cold Of the northern night, his apostle is crying the message, and you do not hear it right, But we who would fain believe him rejoice that he sitteth the'r'e, On the great white throne Of the Russias, young Alexander, the Bear.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.