Excerpt from Yale University Prize Poem 1910: The Echo, a Venetian InterludeAngelo [the younger, turning from the window in a sudden burst of emotion].Proud, proud, Irreverent, and intolerable world! The grinning mockery of a vain intent, The scorned performance of a futile part, Which we call living Tell me - (oh, This nameless fear that ever at my heart Trembles into a question!) - is this all, This tawdry, tedious, heartless travesty? Is this thing life? And, Pietro, must it be That one will bear this fiction till the world Has moulded aery fancies, visions, gleams Scarce tremulous upon the brink of birth, Into the abhorred semblance of the mask That all the world is wearing? Or am I Alone, of some fine, stranger clay, inept To this crude fabric, where our lives are wove In unknown patterns, and our colors bleached By some unnatural heat of envy? Oh.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.