Excerpt from The Story of Elizabeth: Two Hours, and From an Island If singing breath, or echoing chord, To every hidden pang were given, What endless melodies were poured As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! This is the story of a foolish woman, who, through her own folly, learnt wisdom at last; whose troubles - they were not very great, they might have made the happiness of some less eager spirit - were more than she knew how to bear. The lesson of life was a hard lesson to her. She would not learn, she revolted against the wholesome doctrine. And while she was crying out that she would not learn, and turning away and railing and complaining against her fate; days, hours, fate, went on their course. And they passed unmoved and it was she who gave way, she who was altered, she who was touched and torn by her own complaints and regrets. L. 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.