Excerpt from The Queen of China, and Other PoemsToo long this long and lightless way I have trod And suddenly now I see What thing I tread, Lit by a transient flash of the lightning brain, That leaps in the sky an instant and is dead But, having shown, needs not to come again. Ridiculous treadmill! That the sorry fool Thinks is the road to joy, his brain is so dull.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.