Morning Lights and Evening Shadows (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Morning Lights and Evening Shadows (Classic Reprint) written by Rossiter Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Morning Lights and Evening Shadows To be the lord Of the new-made earth, To conquer its forests, its beasts to tame, To gather its treasures and know their worth, All readily granted his power and place, Save the Ocean, the Mountain, and Time, and Space; And these four sneered at his puny frame, And made of his lordship a theme for mirth. Whole ages passed while his flocks he tended, And delved and dreamed, as the years went by, Till there came an age when his genius splendid Had bridged the rivers, and sailed the sky, And raised the dome that defied the storm, And mastered the beauties of color and form; But his power was lost, his dominion ended, Where Time, Space, Mountain or Sea was nigh. The Mountains rose in their grim inertness Between the peoples, and made them strange, Save as in moments of pride or pertness They climbed the ridge of their native range, And, looking down on the tribe below, Saw nothing there but a deadly foe, Heard only a war-cry, long and shrill, In echoes leaping from hill to hill. The Ocean rolled in its mighty splendor, Washing the slowly wasting shore, And the voices of nations, fierce or tender, Lost themselves in its endless roar. With frail ships launched on its treacherous surge, And sad eyes fixed on its far blue verge, Man's hold of life seemed brittle and slender. 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.