Excerpt from A Pageant of Life: Poems As one who in a mighty river swims And feels the water's smooth, incessant flow, With drops that ever come and ever go, Till his brain totters and his eyesight dims, So may we feel our life fly. Lightest whims And fiercest lusts that rock us to and fro Shift, fade alike, and vanish. Fast or slow, The endless stream its unknown channel brims. One only in this change remains unchanged. All time sweeps on and all it leaves behind, The heart that harbored and the heart that ranged, All passion's ebbs and flows, and hope's clear wind, All love and hate, estranger and estranged, Are quiet in that one eternal mind. 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.