This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Book of Mormon," these lines occur--Man reads not what's without, but what's within. Not what's before, but what's behind his eyeball. Writ in the red ink of his blood and being; and in the poem, "Queen Aliquippa"--For from the heart, the growth-floods go Back to the brain and ear, till lo! The brain thinks and the ear ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Book of Mormon," these lines occur--Man reads not what's without, but what's within. Not what's before, but what's behind his eyeball. Writ in the red ink of his blood and being; and in the poem, "Queen Aliquippa"--For from the heart, the growth-floods go Back to the brain and ear, till lo! The brain thinks and the ear and eye Perceive naught but in phantasy; and in the poem, "Prince GaUitzln 'Tis not the eye that sees but the idea. Or, to express the same idea with the license of a poet, I might say with greater force, the eye is in the heart, not in the head: to illustrate which, the following poem' will serve; also, when contrasted with the story of the simple Ridger and bis child, told In "The Headless Heart," to show the severance of sympathy the instant feeling Is evolved into thought: the differentiation of development separating a father and son, with imagintlons as nearly idendtieat as possible, but with different histories, so far that the same object in the same light assumes shapes as opposite to them as their fates in crossing the Oo-emaugh, the feeble old man wading in safety, while the sturdy youth is drowned: as happened, in fact; n 1835, at the place indicated, or not, no matter to philosophy and poetry, and no more, T take it, to the legendary history of Southwestern Pennsylvania. "On, on, my son! While yet the moon looks back--Stays in her flight, and, through the parting rack, Beholds with staring eye the storm-king's wrath Cut, like a scythe in grass, a forest swath; Ere she pursue, behind the rack her flight, We must across the Conemaugh to-night. "On, on, my son! before the storm's brood, nursed Upon the mountain's rocky breast, have burst Their swaddling bands; and, with the bounding blood...
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Good-(front cover is loose, spine torn, first several pages are loose; age toning as expected but text is otherwise clear. ) Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front, rear and spine; 424 pp. The battle ballads and other poems has separate t.p. Errata on p. vii and cccxix. Includes index of titles.
