Excerpt from The Words of the Pageant: Philadelphia October 7-12, 1912 The arena is a wide meadow, with green hanks sloping to a river. Trumpets announce the Pageant. A Herald rides up the Held and pausing, proclaims: Ye who would learn the glory of your past And form a forecast of the things to be, Give heed to this a city's trumpet-blast And see her pictured life in pageantry. A mounted knight in silver armor, typifying the spirit of exploration and adventure, silently crosses the Held. Sprites enter from all sides and, beckoning to the east, disappear as quickly as they came. Chorus Here where the river is breaking its heart in the ocean Shall come mighty leaders, undaunted, intrepid, Born with the mien of command and the power Far-seeing and silent. Semi-Chorus (Remembrance) The past thro' lessening vistas stretches back Till in the green of English lanes and all The lowland meadows and the Norse fiords We see the forbears of a later brawn. 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.