Excerpt from The Three Spirits and Other Poems The Three Spirits. Unknown to Reason or to Faith, Unsolved in prose or rhyme; Hope's mockery, the scoff of Death - Thou mystery of Time! Who shall explore the hidden path That man hath never trod? Who toll the vanity of Earth, The majesty of God? Who can do this but thou, O Soul Immortal, loosed from clay? Oh, tear the darkness from our eyes And bless us with the day! Soar to the heights the angels know, And in thy boundless flight Beg of the Powers a single ray From the Fountainhead of Light. 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.