Excerpt from The Mystic and Other Poems Lordly, and spake to earth the lore of stars, The mother-tongue of Heaven our Fatherland. Born to instate mankind in veriest truths, By nature symbolled in gem, bloom, and wing; To give to all the hope of bliss reserved. 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.