Excerpt from The Book of Love All records, saving thine, come cool and calm, And shadowy, through the mist of passed years. Since the morning stars sang together the first song of love, and the first man whispered its secret into the ear of the first woman, there has been no other subject, except that of his Maker, so poignantly intimate to the soul of man, and none that more constantly labors to expression through his art and letters. Down through the ages what a pageant the mere name of the god marshals before the mental eye! What shapes, what presences, insubstantial as the wind, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love. 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.